Millions at Stake as Defunct Apportionment Law Is Debated in Ga. Courts

"[Our recent settlement's] a good example of what Alston & Bird v. Hatcher Management Holdings allowed that we can no longer do," plaintiff attorney Mike Rafi said. "Something like this will almost certainly never happen again because of the way the law changed."

January 05, 2024 at 07:15 PM

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Litigation

Alex Anteau

A 2022 statute closed the door to joint and several liability in single-defendant personal injury cases, undoing a drafting error in Georgia's 2005 tort reform package. However, trial courts are still figuring out what plaintiffs who filed in the interim are able to recover.