Pennsylvania recently amended its long-standing law regarding joint and several liablity. Joint and several liability applies when more than one party is responsible for an injury. Under the old law, any party at least one percent at fault was jointly and individually liable for all of the damages. This protected the injured victim when the most responsible party had insufficient insurance or assets. This has now changed with the recent amendments. The joint and several liability amendments limit the liability of a defendant who is less than 60% at fault to his proportionate share of liability. Under the amendments’ language, however, … [Read more...]
Jury Finds for Plaintiff in Highly Contested Allegheny County, PA Motor Vehicle Accident
April 2, 2010 by
I was recently successful in securing a favorable verdict for an Allegheny County, PA motor vehicle accident victim. Alhaj v. C&K Industrial Services, Inc. and Keeder, No. GD08-001439 (Allegheny County, PA February 5, 2010). This motor vehicle wreck occurred in Munhall Borough, Pennsylvania. As the plaintiff pulled his car into an intersection, he was struck on the passenger side by a truck coming up the intersecting street on his left. The plaintiff had a stop sign, but the truck driver did not. This presented a challenge in proving that the truck driver was responsible. An accident … [Read more...]
