Joint and Several Liability Reform: SB S1 (special session) (1986): Sunset provision (SB 1529) enacted in 1991.

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Bars application of the rule of joint and several liability


Bars application of the rule of joint and several liability in the recovery of noneconomic damages from defendants found to be 25% or less at fault.  The reform does not apply to auto, product, or environmental cases.

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More Work Remains on Tort Reform

This letter-to-the-editor was originally published by The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, WV. West Virginia was a mainstay on the American Tort Reform Foundation’s “Judicial Hellholes®” list for nearly 20 years, finally […]