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4391 REVIEW DENIED As a general rule, if a claim presented to a public entity under the Government Claims Act is rejected and a second claim is filed relating to the same underlying facts, the time to sue runs from rejection of the first claim, but if the notice rejecting the second claim is accompanied by a statement from the public entity indicating that the claimant has another six months to sue, thereby inducing the claimant's reasonable belief that the entity will not stand on the first rejection, the entity is equitably estopped from relying on the general rule.
SOFRANEK v MERCED COUNTY (Second Rejection) 146 CA4 1238 [See: GovC 810 etseq; State v Superior Court 32 C4 1234, P/AT 7/04; Dixon v City 219 CA3 907]
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