Release of joint tortfeasor
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 646 F. Supp. 1574 - Associated Construction Co. v. Camp, Dresser & McKee, Inc. (1986)
Most recently applied in Holland v. Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority (March 2004)
(1969, P.A. 143.)
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.
(a) For the purposes of this section the term “joint tortfeasors” means two or more persons jointly or severally liable in tort for the same injury to person or property whether or not a judgment has been recovered against all or any of them.
(b) A release by the injured person, or his legal representative, of one joint tortfeasor does not discharge the other tortfeasors unless, and only to the extent, the release so provides.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.