Joint and several liability rule · South Dakota
For Joint and several liability rule · South Dakota, state is South Dakota; rule type is Joint and several liability rule; joint liability rule is Each party is jointly and severally liable, but parties who are allocated less than 50% of the total fault may only be jointly liable for more than 2xs the percentage of fault allocated to that party; joint liability fault threshold is less than 50%; statutory citation is South Dakota Codified Laws § 15-8-11, recorded from its source on 2026-08-31.
- State
- South Dakota our reading
- Rule type
- Joint and several liability rule our reading
- Joint liability rule
- Each party is jointly and severally liable, but parties who are allocated less than 50% of the total fault may only be jointly liable for more than 2xs the percentage of fault allocated to that party. verified
- Joint liability fault threshold
- less than 50% verified
- Statutory citation
- South Dakota Codified Laws § 15-8-11. verified
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What the source says
No. Each party is jointly and severally liable, but parties who are allocated less than 50% of the total fault may only be jointly liable for more than 2xs the percentage of fault allocated to that party. South Dakota Codified Laws § 15-8-11.
— ama-assn.org, retrieved 2026-08-31
Source
- ama-assn.orghttps://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/mlr-state-laws-chart-I.pdf