Erny v. Estate of Merola

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• endorsing change to Comparative Negligence Act as consistent with “policy of allocating responsibility among all negligent parties in proportion to their relative fault”
• first prong of the governmental interest test for choice of law is to determine whether an actual conflict between the laws under consideration exists
• “Ordinarily, choice- of-law determinations are made on an issue-by-issue basis, with each issue receiving separate analysis.”
• amendment limiting joint and several liability to only those tortfeasors found to be more than sixty percent responsible intended to reduce cost of general liability insurance by eliminating “deep pocket” sought by defense attorneys in lawsuits with multiple defendants
• utilizing the place of wrong test
• utilizing the place of wrong test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).