PJC General Negligence 2022

S UBJECT I NDEX

Injurious practices of employees of Texas A&M University, University of Texas, or Texas Department of Transportation, 18.8 Injury, to a child, 31.7A to a disabled individual, 31.7C to an elderly individual, 31.7B Injury damages. See Damages, personal injury Injury, failure to mitigate, 28.9 Injury, preexisting injury or condition, 28.8 “Injury,” use of, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 28.3, 28.9, 28.10 Injury, workers’ compensation claim for compensation to Division, 20.4 contesting compensability of, 20.1 in course and scope of employment, ch. 17 heart attack, 17.2 producing death, 26.1 while traveling, 17.6–17.8 date of, for occupational disease, 19.1 definition of, 17.1, 26.1 employee’s intent to injure another, 18.6 employer’s actual knowledge of, 20.2 extent of injury disputed, 21.1 followed by self-inflicted death, 18.4 good cause for delay in filing claim, 20.5 good cause for delay in notifying employer, 20.3 intentional act of another person, 18.5 notice to carrier, 20.2 notice to employer, 20.2, 20.3 self-inflicted, 18.3 Insect sting, 18.1 Instructions to jury generally, Introduction 4(c)–(e)

admonitory ( see Admonitory instructions to jury) on community property in wrongful death suit, 29.3 damages conditioned on liability, 28.1, 29.1, 30.1, 32.1 damages not reduced for decedent’s negligence, 29.3–29.6, 30.3 damages not reduced for plaintiff’s negligence, 28.3, 28.5, 32.3, 32.4 damages not reduced for spouse’s negligence, 28.4 exclusionary ( see Exclusionary instruction) exemplary damages, 28.7, 29.7, 30.4 inferential rebuttal ( see Inferential rebuttal) on jurors’ note-taking, 1.2, 1.3 on jurors’ use of electronic technology, 1.1–1.3 on spoliation, 1.13 unanimity, 1.4, 4.2 Intentional act of another person, injury caused by, in workers’ compensation, 18.5 Intentional personal torts, ch. 6 Intention to injure another, in workers’ compensation, 18.6 Interest, prejudgment. See Prejudgment interest Intestacy laws, 29.3, 29.4 Intoxication, non–workers’ compensation assault, 31.9 negligence per se, ch. 5 on privilege, 1.10, 1.11

of customer, 5.5 definition of, 5.1 of driver, 5.1

manslaughter, 31.10 presumption of, 5.1

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