Definitions
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case Montgomery County v. Valk Manufacturing Co. (1989)
Most recently applied in 2021 Ark. App. 332 - Ileshia Garner and Dezmon Gordon v. the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (September 2021)
Acts 1941, No. 315, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 34-1001; Acts 2013, No. 1116, § 2.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Joint tortfeasor” means two (2) or more persons or entities who may have joint liability or several liability in tort for the same injury to person or property, whether or not judgment has been recovered against all or some of them; and
(2) “Several liability” means that each person or entity is liable only for the amount of damages allocated to that defendant in direct proportion to that defendant's percentage of fault.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.