The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday set limits on a plaintiff’s ability to win sanctions under the offer-of-judgment rule in cases of multiple defendants, even when the ultimate damages award is well beyond the original judgment.

In a unanimous ruling, the court overturned an award of sanctions in a products liability case where a jury ordered two defendants to pay an injured teenager far beyond what his attorney had demanded in a pretrial offer of judgment.

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