This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-38-10
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Known as the Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act
The act spans §§ 15-38-10 to 15-38-70 (9 sections).
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case Vermeer Carolina's, Inc. v. Wood/Chuck Chipper Corp. (1999)
Most recently applied in Machin v. Carus Corp. (April 2017)
1988 Act No. 432, SECTION 5.
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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.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.