Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 34-20-7-1 (2025)
Assessment of liability
✓ 2025 Indiana Code: the 2026 session is not included
Sec. 1. In a product liability action where liability is assessed against more than one (1) defendant, a defendant is not liable for more than the amount of fault, as determined under IC 34-20-8, directly attributable to that defendant. A defendant in a product liability action may not be held jointly liable for damages attributable to the fault of another defendant.
[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 33-1-1.5-9.]
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.15.
IC 34-20-8Chapter 8. Assessing Percentage of Fault
34-20-8-0.2Application of prior law
34-20-8-1Assessment of percentage of fault
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2001–2002 · leading case: Control Techniques, Inc. v. Johnson, 762 N.E.2d 104 (Ind. 2002).
Control Techniques, Inc. v. Johnson, 762 N.E.2d 104 (Ind. 2002). “…Act explicitly abrogates the common law principle of joint and several liability in products liability cases. See Ind.Code § 34-20-7-1.”
Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp. v. Cobb, 754 N.E.2d 905 (Ind. 2001). “He contended that many of the nonparty defendants that Owens Corning sought to add were not added in a timely manner and were therefore barred by Ind.Code $ 34-4-383-10(c) (1993).”
Owens Corning v. Cobb, No. 49S04-0001-CV-33 (Ind. Sept. 10, 2001). “He contended that many of the nonparty defendants that Owens Corning sought to add were not added in a timely manner and were therefore barred by Ind.”
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