Opinion ID: 1189073
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Heading Rank: 14

Heading: Should the Right to Contribution Among Joint Tortfeasors Statutes Play a Part in Calculating the Judgment?

Text: It is one of Kirby's contentions that the Right to Contribution Among Joint Tortfeasors statutes had no place in the formulation of the judgment entered by the trial court. The appellant Kirby puts its contention this way: Under the circumstances of this case, the Wyoming Comparative Negligence Act required the Court to ignore settlements and settlement documents in calculating the Judgment. Instead, the Court should have calculated the Judgment based upon the shares of fault allocated to Centric and Kirby, the two tortfeasors from whom Plaintiffs can recover. Since the Centric and Kirby shares of fault were 20% and 30% respectively, Judgment should have been entered against them, jointly and severally, for 50% of the verdict found by the Jury. Judgment should therefore have been entered against Centric and Kirby for $4,196,108.45.