From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

Liberty Trucking v. Joyner

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
May 20, 2009
8 So. 3d 380 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

Opinion

No. 1D08-0112.

February 19, 2009. Rehearing Denied May 20, 2009.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Clay County. Frederic A. Buttner, Judge.

E.T. Fernandez, III, and Sorena S. Fallin, of Fernandez Trial Lawyers, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellants.

William D. Keith and John Thorn Cardillo, of Cardillo, Keith Bonaquist, P.A., Naples, for Appellee.


AFFIRMED. See Lamb v. Matetzschk, 906 So.2d 1037, 1044 (Fla. 2005) (Pariente, C.J., concurring) ("[W]here the liability of one defendant is based on vicarious liability and the issue of vicarious liability is undisputed, apportionment of the offer between the active tortfeasor and the vicarious tortfeasor is problematic because the liability of both defendants is not apportioned but is coextensive. . . . No matter how clever a defendant or plaintiff might be in attempting to frame an offer, the reality is that there is no rational method to apportion fault").

KAHN and BENTON, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Liberty Trucking v. Joyner

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
May 20, 2009
8 So. 3d 380 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)
Case details for

Liberty Trucking v. Joyner

Case Details

Full title:LIBERTY TRUCKING, INC., and Charles Ross, Jr., Appellants, v. Patrick W…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: May 20, 2009

Citations

8 So. 3d 380 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)