Litigation

Predicting Settlement Set-Offs In Multi-Defendant Cases: Good Luck With That

By Bruce Nye

One of the more complex questions of California tort law, with one of the more counter-intuitive answers,  can best be posed this way:  If plaintiff sues ten defendants in tort, nine of them settle and the plaintiff gets a verdict against the tenth, what credit, or set-off, does that tenth defendant get for the settlements?

My partner Barbara Adams blogs on toxics issues from time to time at Toxics Defense.  She has a multi-part series going right now on  this and related questions.  She does an excellent job of bringing clarity to the otherwise imponderable legal morass of credits and set-offs.  The first two installments are here and here.  Recommended!

Full post as published by CalBizLit on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).