In an article published in the Law Weekly on July 21 titled “Deep Pockets Gone With Joint and Several Liability Repeal,” Max Mitchell reviewed changes made in 2011 to the comparative negligence statute, 42 Pa. C. S. Section 7102 (2011), and interviewed several practicing attorneys who provided their views that these amendments may have dire consequences for economic recovery by consumer victims against multiple tortfeasors.
Some attorneys went so far as to opine that injured consumers have lost the right to recover against those tortfeasors who can afford to pay for the harm they caused—and that plaintiffs will be relegated to obtaining judgments against responsible defendants who cannot pay.
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