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PARADISE VALLEY HOSPITAL v. SCHLOSSMAN

Docket No. 26702.

143 Cal.App.3d 87 (1983)

191 Cal. Rptr. 531

PARADISE VALLEY HOSPITAL, Cross-complainant and Appellant, v. ROBERT C. SCHLOSSMAN, Cross-defendant and Respondent; LOUIS LURIE, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

May 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Rhoades & Hollywood, Rhoades, Hollywood & Neil and Bruce E. Sulzner for Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Higgs, Fletcher & Mack and Rita L. Hanscom for Cross-complainant and Respondent.

No appearance for Cross-defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

STANIFORTH, Acting P.J.

Paradise Valley Hospital's (Hospital) appeal presents this novel question: Where one of several joint tortfeasors is insolvent, should the solvent tortfeasors share liability for the shortfall in direct proportion to their respective degrees of fault?

(1) The issue tendered is yet another of the "problems of contribution and indemnity among joint tortfeasors [which] lurk in the...

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