Opinion ID: 1737977
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Heading: additional provisions affecting limitations period

Text: Section 766.106(4) of the statutory scheme also provides that if there are less than sixty days remaining to file suit before the end date of the original two-year limitations period at the time the claimant filed the notice of intent to initiate litigation, then the claimant shall have sixty days from the time when the notice of termination of negotiations is received by him to file suit. If, however, there were more than sixty days remaining to file suit before the end date of the original two-year limitations period when the claimant filed the notice, then the claimant only has the time remaining in the original two-year period to file suit. This provision provides additional time to the limitations period separate and apart from the ninety days of tolling, but only in the limited circumstances set out in the statute where less than sixty days remain to file suit at the time the claimant files the notice of intent. See Tanner v. Hartog, 618 So.2d 177, 183 (Fla.1993). Those circumstances are not present here.