Inefficiency in the Courthouse: The Nonsense in Withholding Settlement Amounts from Non-Settling Tortfeasors

Payne Tatich provided insight into ways to clear courtroom congestion, beginning with "recognizing that delayed disclosure of settlement amounts in multi-tortfeasor litigations impedes, rather than encourages, settlement between the parties, and frustrates the legislative intent of the controlling statutes in this area" in a recently published article for the New York Law Journal.