Marvin v. Prentice

How courts have described this case

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• although party seeking contribution was a Pennsylvania corporation, New Jersey law governed the third-party claim arising out of a New Jersey work-related injury
• “By limiting contribution Pennsylvania has been able to pursue its policy of requiring joint-tortfeasors to share the burden of their fault without dislocating its statutory compensation scheme.”
• “[T]o the extent that the Restatement suggests that the conflict be resolved by analysis rather than by resort to a mechanical rule, we adopt its treatment of the problem.”
• effect of workmen’s compensation acts on contribution by joint tortfeasor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).