Margaret Austin, Etc. v. Raymark Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that through a Pierringer release, a nonsettling defendant \effectively obtain[s] its contribution from the settling defendants by having assessed against it only its own percentage of liability\
• no reduction in verdict for amounts received by plaintiff from defendants found not to be at fault
• “Central to the court’s reasoning [in Pierringer] was the fact that the releases satisfied a part of the cause of action against the nonsettling defendant in an amount equivalent to the settling defendant’s proportionate liability”
• collecting cases adhering to this “proportionate share” view

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).