Florida has repealed the decades-old doctrine of joint and several liability. The legal doctrine of joint and several liability required every defendant in a lawsuit to be completely responsible for a plaintiff’s lost wages and medical costs regardless of his or her degree of fault. Alabama, Georgia and most other states in the Southeastern United States have already eliminated their joint and several laws. With this repeal, Florida has enacted the system of pure comparative fault in which defendants only pay their proportion of damages, economic and non-economic, equal to their percentage of fault assigned by a jury.

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