DUNN v. KANAWHA COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 22550.

459 S.E.2d 151 (1995)

194 W.Va. 40

Jessica DUNN and Jason Dunn, et al., Plaintiffs, v. KANAWHA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided May 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy R. Bucci, Robert C. Chambers, Bucci, Chambers & Willis, L.C., Charleston, and James T. Cooper, Henry R. Glass, III, Lovett, Cooper & Glass, Charleston, and Carl S. Kravitz, David N. Webster, Caplin & Drysdale, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

David L. Shuman, Shuman, Annand & Poe, Charleston, and Avrum Levicoff, Brown, Levicoff & McDyer, Beckley, and Michael Fisher, Offutt, Eifert, Fisher, Duffield & Nord, Huntington, and William J. Cooper, Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman & Kalur, Charleston, for amicus, WV General & Plastic Surgeons.

Arden J. Curry, II, Pauley, Curry, Sturgeon & Vanderford, Charleston, for amicus, The Builders Supply Ass'n of WV.

Jeffrey M. Wakefield, William L. Ballard, Christine Fox, Richard D. Jones, Tracy L. Webb, Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, Charleston, for defendant, Kanawha County Bd. of Educ.

Paul M. Friedberg, David Johnson, Lewis, Friedberg, Glasser, Casey & Rollins, Charleston, and Donald W. Fowler, Joe G. Hollingsworth, Katharine R. Latimer, Bruce J. Berger, Spriggs & Hollingsworth, Washington, DC, for defendant, Velsicol.

Charles R. McElwee, Robinson & McElwee, Charleston, for amicus, The WV Hosp. Ass'n.

Anita R. Casey, Renatha S. Garner, Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, Charleston, for amicus, CSM Systems, Inc.

A.L. Emch, Anthony Majestro, William D. Esbenshade, Jackson & Kelly, Charleston, for amicus, WV Retailers Ass'n.

Cheryl A. Eifert, Blake Benton, Offutt, Eifert, Fisher, Duffield & Nord, Huntington, for amicus, American Medical Ass'n and West Virginia State Medical Ass'n.


FOX, Judge:1

We accepted this certified question from the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, to consider whether a good faith settlement between a plaintiff and a defendant in a multiparty lawsuit extinguishes the rights of non-settling defendants to seek indemnification from the settling defendant.

The sixty-seven plaintiffs from three consolidated lawsuits are students...

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