Now that the Fair Share Act has passed, bringing sweeping changes to the state’s joint and several liability common-law doctrine, several plaintiffs lawyers across the state converged on a similar notion: The proponents of the FSA had no idea what they had just done.
The trial lawyers, whose practices will almost undoubtedly be forced to reject certain cases under the new law, noted that perhaps the champions of tort reform failed to fully grasp what they sought and succeeded to pass.
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