BROWN v. TUCKER; And Vice Versa

BARNES, Presiding Judge.

Tisha Tucker was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by Tammy Brown when Brown struck a tractor-trailer rig parked by the road. Tucker sued Brown for her resulting injuries, and Brown identified the tractor-trailer driver as a nonparty against whom the jury should apportion fault. After trial, the jury returned a verdict of $2 million, apportioning 40 percent fault to the tractor-trailer driver and 60 percent to Brown. The trial court subsequently awarded Tucker an additional $533,180 in attorney fees and expenses of litigation under the offer of settlement statute,…