On June 28, Gov. Tom Corbett signed Act 17 of 2011 into law. Act 17 purports to make joint and several liability the exception, rather than the rule, in actions against more than one tortfeasor in Pennsylvania. Certain environmental claims seem to be among the exceptions, but this statute — whatever you think of the underlying policy decision to abolish joint and several liability — is not a model of drafting clarity.
The statute also assumes that good standards exist to apportion strict liability claims, when all the existing law seems only to address allocation of liability among jointly and severally liable defendants.
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