Case Summaries
3318 REVIEW DENIED In determining what credit to give non-settling defendants under Proposition 51 for unallocated pre-trial settlements of economic damages, a trial court has wide discretion in allocating portions of the settlement to claims not adjudicated at trial, but is bound to apply the ratio of economic to total damages found by the jury in claims that were adjudicated.
LEWIS (HACKETT) v CRANE [sub nom Hatchett v Crane] (Prop 51 Apportionment) 98 CA4 1233 [See: Espinoza v Machonga 9 CA4 268, T/AT 11/92; Wilson v Crane 81 CA4 847, T/AT 7/00]
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