context: Mr. Bozeman and General Motors were not joint tortfeasors. Setoffs generally are available only with respect to joint tortfeasors.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 763 So.2d 276, 279
citation_a.parenthetical: "Joint and several liability is also appropriate when the tortious acts of multiple tortfeasors combine to produce a single, indivisible injury."
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Gross v. Lyons, 763 So.2d 276, 279 (Fla.2000) ("Joint and several liability is also appropriate when the tortious acts of multiple tortfeasors combine to produce a single, indivisible injury.”); Maser v. Fioretti, 498 So.2d 568, 569-70 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 654 So.2d 643, 645
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that settlement with one defendant could not be setoff from verdict against second defendant where the claims were "separate and distinct," i.e., "involving different elements of damages"
citation_b.sentence: Rosenberg, D.D.S., P.A., 654 So.2d 643, 645 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995) (holding that settlement with one defendant could not be setoff from verdict against second defendant where the claims were "separate and distinct,” i.e., "involving different elements of damages”). If damages were indivisible, these defendants might nonetheless be treated as joint tortfeasors.