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Arizona Personal Injury Standard Jury Instructions - Select Instructions from Arizona RAJI (Civil) 4th

Burden of Proof
A personal injury Plaintiff must prove:

1. defendant was at fault;
2. plaintiff was injured; and
3. plaintiff's damages.

Burden of proof means burden of persuasion. On any claim, the party who has the burden of proof must persuade the jury, by the evidence, that the claim is more probably true than not true. This means that the evidence that favors that party outweighs the opposing evidence. In determining whether a party has met this burden, the jury must consider all the evidence that bears on that claim, regardless of which party produced it.

Fault
Plaintiff claims that defendant was at fault. Fault is negligence that was a cause of Plaintiff's injury. Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care. Negligence may consist of action or inaction. Negligence is the failure to act as a reasonably careful person would act under the circumstances.

Causation
Before you can find defendant at fault, you must find that defendant's negligence was a cause of Plaintiff's injury. Negligence causes an injury if it helps produce the injury and if the injury would not have happened without the negligence.

Damages
If the jury finds the defendant liable to the plaintiff, the jury must then decide the full amount of money that will reasonably and fairly compensate the plaintiff for each of the following elements of damages proved by the evidence to have resulted from the fault of the defendant:

1. The nature, extent, and duration of the injury.
2. The pain, discomfort, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and anxiety already experienced, and reasonably probable to be experienced in the future as a result of the injury.
3. Reasonable expenses of necessary medical care, treatment, and services rendered, and reasonably probable to be incurred in the future.
4. Lost earnings to date, and any decrease in earning power or capacity in the future.
5. Loss of love, care, affection, companionship, and other pleasures of the [marital] [family] relationship.
6. Loss of enjoyment of life, that is, the participation in life's activities to the quality and extent normally enjoyed before the injury.

If you are a victim of an accident, you need a personal injury attorney who is willing to fight the insurance company, their adjusters, and their attorneys to make sure you are reasonably and fairly compensated for your damages. This includes compensation for not only the personal injury, but the pain, discomfort, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and anxiety already experienced, and reasonably probable to be experienced in the future as a result of the personal injury. In addition, the injury victim should recover reasonable expenses of medical care, treatment, and services, and any lost earnings due to the personal injury.

Our Arizona Personal Injury Attorney represents injured clients in accident cases involving cars, motorcycles, trucks, and bikes. To learn what a car accident personal injury lawyer can do to help anyone suffering from a personal injury or death due to an accident, please contact us today for a free initial consultation. We offer reduced rates to those contacting us through the Internet.

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Law Offices of Shane L. Harward PLC
Phoenix Personal Injury Attorney
Arizona Wrongful Death Lawyer
10575 North 114th Street, Suite 103
Scottsdale, Arizona 85259

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