Voyles v. Corwin

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• tortfeasors originally causing an injury and physicians who subsequently aggravate or cause a new injury are not joint tortfeasors
• Liability could be apportioned because the conduct of one party added to or aggravated an injury caused previously by another party.
• driver could not be joined as an additional defendant in motorcyclist’s medical malpractice suit against physicians because driver’s release expressly barred contribution claims against her and no other basis for joinder existed
• both quoting W. Prosser, Law of Torts, § 46 n. 2 (4th ed.1971)

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