A legal fight over how a key aspect of the 2005 tort reform law affects premises liability cases is about to come to a head in the state’s appellate courts.
The issue involves cases in which a crime victim sues the owner of the property where the crime occurred. Lawyers and trial judges have been wrestling with whether juries in these cases should be asked to split responsibility for the plaintiff’s damages between the property owner and the assailant, who may or may not be a defendant in the civil case.
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