Patton v. Carbondale Clinic, SC

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• rejecting a plaintiff’s argument that a nonsettling defendant who was seeking a set off should bear the loss of the settling parties’ failure to allocate settlement proceeds because the non- settling defendant failed to seek contribution from the settling defendants
• where the plaintiffs did not allocate the settlement, the nonsettling defendants were entitled to setoff the entire amount of the prior settlements
• the defendants were not joint tortfeasors where the plaintiff suffered two distinct injuries: the first from a car accident and the second from a doctor’s malpractice in treating her injuries
• where the plaintiffs did not allocate the settlement, the nonsettling defendants were entitled to set off the entire amount of the prior settlements

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