City of Fayetteville v. Phillips

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• explaining that the statutory right of contribution has not been completely abolished by the legislature’s enactment of OCGA § 51-12-33, Georgia’s apportionment statute
• “[I]t cannot be interpreted to abolish the right of contribution between settling joint tortfeasors when there has been no apportionment of damages by a trier of fact.”
• “Based upon the plain language of [the contribution] statute, the right of contribution between joint tortfeasors has not been completely abolished by the legislature’s enactment of OCGA § 51-12-33 (b).”
• “The test for determining joint tortfeasors is whether the separate and independent acts of negligence of two or more persons or corporations combine naturally and directly to produce a single indivisible injury ... .” (punctuation omitted)

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