Joint and Several Liability Reform: HB 551 (1988).

Kentucky

Requires that juries be instructed to determine the percentage of fault appropriate to each claimant, defendant, third party defendant and defendant settling out of court and apportion each party’s equitable share in accordance with the respective percentages of fault.  Prudential Life Ins. Co. v. Moody, 696 S.W.2d 503 (Ky. 1985).

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