Legal Opinion
Washington v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided May 2, 2001No. Claim No. 84421PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Donald J. Corbett, Jr., J.
In this motion the defendant seeks to apply General Obligations Law § 15-108 to the damages awarded in light of a settlement in 1998 with other tortfeasors in Supreme Court, and to amend the answer in the event I were to determine that such *156was required in order to assert the relevant portions of the General Obligations Law.
A brief chronological retrospective is required. In June 1997, I found the defendant partially liable in damages to the claimant. In December 1997, I issued an award of damages in claimant’s favor. In March 1998, there was a…
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- Sniadach v. GonzalesCivil Court of the City of New York · 2001