Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-6106

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

(a) Subject to the terms of an insurance contract, if any, a claim against the state or employee thereof acting within the scope of the employee’s office or employment may be compromised or settled for and on behalf of the state and any such employee by the attorney general, with the approval of the state finance council. The approval of settlements and compromises by the state finance council is hereby characterized as a matter of legislative delegation and subject to the guidelines prescribed in subsection (c) of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-3711c, except that such approval also may be given when the legislature is in session.

(b) Subject to the terms of the insurance contract, if any, claims against a municipality or employee thereof acting within the scope of the employee’s office or employment may be compromised or settled by the governing body of the municipality, or in such manner as such governing body may designate.

(c) The acceptance by a claimant of any such compromise or settlement hereunder shall be final and conclusive on the claimant, and shall constitute a complete release of any claim against the governmental entity involved and against the employee whose act or omission gave rise to the claim, by reason of the same subject matter.