APPORTIONMENT OF LIABILITY

apportionment of  liability.Torts.  The  parceling  out of  liability  for  an  injury  among  multiple

tortfeasors, and possibly the plaintiff as well. • Apportionment of liability encompasses such legal

doctrines as joint and several liability, comparative responsibility, indemnity, and settlements. See

Restatement (Third) of Torts: Apportion-ment of Liability (1999). [Cases: Negligence    484, 549;

Torts    22. C.J.S. Negligence §§ 154–156, 262–264; Torts §§ 39–44.] [Blacks Law 8th]