Supreme Court of Texas

In a wrongful death case, the record triggered a rebuttable presumption that a non-settling defendant is entitled to settlement credits against the amounts a jury awarded to non-settling plaintiffs, because those plaintiffs benefited from the settling plaintiff's settlement proceeds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/03/2002
• Published 07/03/2002

Judges

• Justice BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court in Parts I-IV, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O'NEILL, and Justice JEFFERSON join, and delivered a concurring opinion in Part V, in which Justice ENOCH, Justice HANKINSON, and Justice O'NEILL join.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Diana L. Faust,R. Brent Cooper, Cooper & Scully, Dallas, Glen Wilkerson, David M. Davis, Davis & Wilkerson, Austin, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael W. Shore, Shore & Fineburg, Dallas, Steven E. Aldous, Donna J. Bowen, Slack & Davis, Austin, for Respondent.