How does a jury proportion blame?

A recent malpractice case nets $20 million. The “percent blame” seems amazingly specific to me:

Shanin Specter, an attorney for Lee and his parents, said the jury concluded the hospital was 60 percent responsible for what happened to the child, and that Dr. Ara Moomjian, the head of the neonatology unit, was 35 percent responsible . . . He said the jury concluded that Koller’s medical practice was four percent responsible, and that the child’s pediatrician was one percent responsible.

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