Justice SCOTT delivered the Opinion of the Court.
In this case we are called upon to decide the appropriate amount of settlement proceeds, if any, that should be offset from a jury award when a plaintiff has both settled with a nonparty and successfully litigated claims for the same injury against nonsettling defendants. After a jury verdict for plaintiff, the trial court reduced the jury award by deducting an amount based on the fault attributed to the settling nonparty...
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