FAIRFAX HOSP. SYSTEM, INC. v. NEVITT

Record No. 940273.

457 S.E.2d 10 (1995)

FAIRFAX HOSPITAL SYSTEM, INC. v. Diane M. NEVITT, etc.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Trenga, Alexandria (John E. Coffey, Dee Ann Herring, Hazel & Thomas, on briefs), for appellant.

Dean E. Swartz, Washington, DC (Swartz & Reed, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, HASSELL, and KEENAN, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


POFF, Senior Justice.

In this appeal from a judgment for a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case, the issues framed require us to consider (1) the statute granting a plaintiff the right to settle with one tortfeasor without releasing joint tortfeasors, Code § 8.01-35.1, and (2) the interplay of the provision in that statute requiring a settlement credit against "any amount recovered against the other tort-feasors" and the statute commonly called "the medical...

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