Fine v. Linder

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a party seeking indemnification “must show that it may not be held responsible in any degree”
• stating that the parties’ settlement “statutorily extinguished” contribution claim by operation of Section 15-108
• explaining that “an indemnity cause of action can be sustained only if the third-party plaintiff and the third-party defendant have breached a duty to plaintiff and also if some duty to indemnify exists between them”
• holding “strict products liability action is not analogous to vicarious liability, resulting in the imposition of liability without regard to fault”; seller of product will be held liable only if “the product was defective when it left [the seller’s] hands”
• “The statutory bar to contribution may not be circumvented by the simple expedient of calling the claim indemnification.”
• “A party who has settled and seeks what it characterizes as indemnification thus must show that it may not be held responsible in any degree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).