§ 25-213.Tolling of statutes of limitation; when.

Section 25-213 protects people who couldn’t reasonably be expected to act on a claim when it accrued. If a person entitled to bring an action under Chapter 25, or under several named claims acts against the state and its subdivisions and health providers, was — at the moment the cause of action accrued — within the age of twenty years, dealing with a mental disorder, or imprisoned, the ordinary limitations clock doesn’t run against them. They instead get the full period Chapter 25 allows, counted from when that disability is removed.

The named statutes reach well beyond Chapter 25 itself: the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act, the Nebraska Hospital-Medical Liability Act, the State Contract Claims Act, the State Tort Claims Act, the State Miscellaneous Claims Act, and the Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act are all folded into this tolling protection. Penalties, forfeitures, and actions to recover title, possession, or foreclose a mortgage on real property are excluded from the general tolling rule and handled separately.

Real property and mortgage foreclosure claims get their own version of the protection, and it’s capped: a person under a qualifying disability gets twenty years from accrual to sue, but never more than ten years after the disability ends, whichever limit hits first. And the section draws a firm line for actions in rem against or by a nonresident: absence from the state, death, or other disability doesn’t extend the period for those. A separate exception involving sections 76-288 to 76-298 sits outside this section’s general tolling rule.