Coney v. J. L. G. Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the adoption of comparative negligence principles does not alter a joint tortfeasor's full responsibility for a plaintiff's single, indivisible injury
• holding that the prospective-only application of new rules or doctrines from precedential decisions does not violate equal protection rights under the fourteenth amendment
• holding joint and several liability doctrine survived AMs
• stating “under the Act, it is the defendant or defendants who - 12 - must bear the burden of the insolvent or immune defendant” (emphases added) (citing Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 70, ¶ 303)
• “imposition of strict liability was not meant to make the manufacturer an absolute insurer”
• \imposition of strict liability was not meant to make the manufacturer an absolute insurer\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).