Rio Mar Associates, LP, SE v. UHS of Puerto Rico, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the “default rule under Puerto Rico law . . . recognizes [that] the settling parties’ intent [is] controlling”
• finding error in denying offset where jury’s damages award was presumed to have encompassed all damages caused by the settling and non-settling defendant in light of the court’s jury instructions
• “The plaintiff and [one co- defendant] cannot by contracting between themselves deny a third-party rights that the third party (here, the [other co- defendant]) enjoys under the law.”
• \[J]urors are presumed to follow the trial court's instructions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).