Texas PJC Malpractice 2022

C ONTENTS

PJC 80.8

Personal Injury Damages—Exclusionary Instruction for Failure to Mitigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 Personal Injury Damages—Cautionary Instruction Concerning Damages Limit in Health Care Suit. . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Personal Injury Damages—Child’s Loss of Consortium— Question about Parent’s Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Personal Injury Damages—Child’s Loss of Consortium— Damages Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

PJC 80.9

PJC 80.10

PJC 80.11

PJC 80.12

Personal Injury Damages—Bystander Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

C HAPTER 81

W RONGFUL D EATH D AMAGES

PJC 81.1

Wrongful Death Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Wrongful Death Damages—Instruction on Whether Compensatory Damages Are Subject to Income Taxes. . . . . . . 332

PJC 81.2

PJC 81.3

Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Spouse . . . . . 333

PJC 81.4

Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Child . . . . . . 339

PJC 81.5

Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Parents of Minor Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Wrongful Death Damages—Claim of Surviving Parents of Adult Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 Wrongful Death Damages—Cautionary Instruction Concerning Damages Limit in Health Care Suit. . . . . . . . . . . . 349

PJC 81.6

PJC 81.7

C HAPTER 82

S URVIVAL D AMAGES

PJC 82.1

Survival Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Survival Damages—Instruction on Whether Compensatory Damages Are Subject to Income Taxes. . . . . . . 354

PJC 82.2

PJC 82.3

Survival Damages—Compensatory Damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

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