Legal Opinion
Union Pacific Corp. v. Wengert
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 22, 2000No. A084875PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PARRILLI, J.
Since the passage of Proposition 51 in 1986, tort liability for noneconomic damages has been several; the former rule of joint liability was preserved only for economic damages. (Civ. Code, § 1431.2.) In this case, we consider the impact of this change on settling tortfeasors’ right to seek comparative equitable indemnity from a nonsettling concurrent tortfea-sor. We conclude that comparative equitable indemnity is available only for that portion of a settlement attributable to economic damages, because that is the extent of the underlying joint obligation. A defendant has…
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