PJC General Negligence 2024

Contents

PJC 28.7

Personal Injury Damages—Exemplary Damages . . . . . . . . . . . 416

PJC 28.8

Personal Injury Damages—Instructions in Cases Involving Preexisting Injury or Condition or Subsequent Aggravation of Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 Personal Injury Damages—Exclusionary Instruction for Failure to Mitigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Personal Injury Damages—Child’s Loss of Consortium— Question about Parent’s Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Personal Injury Damages—Child’s Loss of Consortium— Damages Question. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

PJC 28.9

PJC 28.10

PJC 28.11

PJC 28.12

Personal Injury Damages—Bystander Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

C HAPTER 29

W RONGFUL D EATH D AMAGES

PJC 29.1

Wrongful Death Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Wrongful Death Damages—Instruction on Whether Compensatory Damages Are Subject to Income Taxes . . . . . . . 434

PJC 29.2

PJC 29.3

Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Spouse. . . . . . 435

PJC 29.4

Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Child . . . . . . . 441

PJC 29.5

Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Parents of Minor Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Parents of Adult Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

PJC 29.6

PJC 29.7

Wrongful Death Damages—Exemplary Damages. . . . . . . . . . . 451

PJC 29.8

Wrongful Death Damages—Apportionment of Exemplary Damages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

C HAPTER 30

S URVIVAL D AMAGES

PJC 30.1

Survival Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

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