PJC Malpractice 2024

C HAPTER 80

P ERSONAL I NJURY D AMAGES

PJC 80.1

Personal Injury Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Personal Injury Damages—Instruction on Whether Compensatory Damages Are Subject to Income Taxes . . . . . . . . 306

PJC 80.2

PJC 80.3

Personal Injury Damages—Basic Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

PJC 80.4

Personal Injury Damages—Injury of Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

PJC 80.5

Personal Injury Damages—Injury of Minor Child. . . . . . . . . . . . 320

PJC 80.6

Personal Injury Damages—Parents’ Loss of Services of Minor Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Personal Injury Damages—Instructions in Cases Involving Preexisting Injury or Condition or Subsequent Aggravation of Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

PJC 80.7

PJC 80.7A Personal Injury Damages—No Aggravation of

Preexisting Symptomatic Condition or Injury and No Eggshell Plaintiff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

PJC 80.7B Personal Injury Damages—Aggravation of

Symptomatic Preexisting Injury or Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

PJC 80.7C Personal Injury Damages—Asymptomatic Preexisting Injury or Condition—Eggshell Plaintiff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 PJC 80.7D Personal Injury Damages—Instructions in Cases Involving Subsequent Aggravation of Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 PJC 80.8 Personal Injury Damages—Exclusionary Instruction for Failure to Mitigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 PJC 80.9 Personal Injury Damages—Cautionary Instruction Concerning Damages Limit in Health Care Suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 PJC 80.10 Personal Injury Damages—Child’s Loss of Consortium— Question about Parent’s Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 PJC 80.11 Personal Injury Damages—Child’s Loss of Consortium— Damages Question. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 PJC 80.12 Personal Injury Damages—Bystander Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

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