Texas PJC Malpractice 2022

Contents

PJC 82.4

Survival Damages—Cautionary Instruction Concerning Damages Limit in Health Care Suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

C HAPTER 83

P ROPERTY D AMAGES

PJC 83.1

Property Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 Property Damages—Instruction on Whether Compensatory Damages Are Subject to Income Taxes . . . . . . . 364 Personal Property Damages—Total Destruction of Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

PJC 83.2

PJC 83.3

PJC 83.4

Property Damages—Partial Destruction of Property . . . . . . . . . 368

C HAPTER 84

E CONOMIC D AMAGES

PJC 84.1

Economic Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Economic Damages—Instruction on Whether Compensatory Damages Are Subject to Income Taxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Economic Damages—Nonmedical Professional Malpractice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 Sample Instructions for Economic Damages—Legal Malpractice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Sample Instructions for Economic Damages—Accounting Malpractice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Economic Damages—Question and Instruction on Monetary Loss Caused by Negligent Misrepresentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

PJC 84.2

PJC 84.3

PJC 84.4

PJC 84.5

PJC 84.6

PJC 84.7

Attorney’s Fee Forfeiture (Comment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

C HAPTER 85

E XEMPLARY D AMAGES

PJC 85.1

Standard for Recovery of Exemplary Damages—Gross Negligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

PJC 85.2

Imputing Gross Negligence to a Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

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