716 F.2d 1010, 1012 (4th Cir.1983) (citing Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. v. Shell Oil Co., 444 U.S. 572, 596, 100 S.Ct. 800, 813, 63 L.Ed.2d 36 (1981)), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1102, 104 S.Ct. 1600, 80 L.Ed.2d 130 (1984). 8 . For example, at least one plaintiff has requested and received equitable tolling on the ground that he relied on EEOC assertions that the filing period would be extended in his case. See Leite v. Kennecott Copper Corp., 558 F.Supp. 1170, 1173-74 (D.Mass.), aff'd without opinion, 720 F.2d 658 (1st Cir.1983). Plaintiffs have also been granted equitable tolling where the untimely filing was due to gross attorney error. See Volk v. Multi-Media, Inc., 516 F.Supp. 157, 161-62 (S.D.Oh.1981); but see Jacobson v. Pitman-Moore, Inc., 624 F.Supp. 937, 942-43 (D.Minn.1985) (<HOLDING>), aff’d without opinion, 786 F.2d 1172 (8th
holding that when a plaintiff files suit alleging that multiple tortfeasors are responsible for the plaintiffs injury any settlements are to be credited against the amount for which the liable parties as a whole are found responsible but for which only the nonsettling defendant remains in court holding that where plaintiff by his own evidence shows two or more equally likely causes of the injury for only one of which defendant is responsible plaintiff can not recover holding that  9613f1 is the exclusive vehicle for responsible parties to obtain contribution from other responsible parties holding plaintiff responsible for attorney error holding the defendant responsible for the greater of the actual or intended loss