CASEY v. STATE OF NEW YORK


119 A.D.2d 363 (1986)

Sylvia N. Casey et al., Appellants, v. State of New York, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

October 14, 1986


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Flower & Plotka (Warren Landau, Richard F. Plotka and Susan V. Jelaso of counsel), for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Andrea Green of counsel), for respondent.

LAZER, J. P., NIEHOFF and KOOPER, JJ., concur.


SPATT, J.

This appeal involves another dilemma which has arisen in the wake of General Obligations Law § 15-108, the statute designed to facilitate settlements in multiparty tort actions. The issue presented here concerns the impact of settling a case involving separate causes of action for wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering with two tort-feasors while continuing against another joint tort...

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