PJC General Negligence 2024

CHANGES IN THE 2024 EDITION The 2024 edition of Texas Pattern Jury Charges—General Negligence, Intentional Personal Torts & Workers’ Compensation includes the following changes from the 2022 edition:

1. Admonitory Instructions—

a. Added instruction on deposition testimony (1.14)

b. Added instruction on multilingual jurors (1.15)

2. Workers’ Compensation—Lifetime Income Benefits

a. Updated accrual date question (25.3)

b. Added ending date questions (25.4), and renumbered following PJCs (25.4–25.7, to 25.5–25.8)

c. Updated skull/traumatic brain injury questions (25.7)

d. Updated burns to the body question (25.8)

e. Added question for other serious bodily injury of first responder (25.9)

3. Personal Injury Damages—

a. Revised commentary for exemplary damages (28.3–28.5)

b. Added commentary regarding separate submission of physical pain and mental anguish (28.3)

c. Added commentary regarding disfigurement (28.3)

d. Added commentary regarding insufficient evidence (28.5)

4. Preservation of Charge Error—Added caveat noting that the current discus sion does not reflect Horton v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. , 692 S.W.3d 112 (Tex. 2024) (33.2)

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