This Alberta Court of Appeal decision deals with Pierringer agreements in the context of fault allocation in the negligent construction and operation of a pipeline. With respect to Pierringer agreements, all three Justices upheld the existing rule “that a settling Plaintiff must account to the non-settling Defendant for any recovery in excess of its actual damages”. The Alberta Court of Appeal noted that other Canadian appellate courts, including the Ontario Court of Appeal in Laudon v. Roberts, had also arrived at this conclusion.
