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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 20.06
Non-Economic Losses
The (first, second, etc.) item of loss claimed by the plaintiff is for non-economic losses. You may award the plaintiff a fair amount to compensate the plaintiff for [pain and suffering] [loss of enjoyment of life] [disfigurement] [physical impairment] [other qualifying loss] [and] [inconvenience] resulting from the injury.
Such an award should fairly compensate the plaintiff for the non-economic losses (he) (she) has experienced from the date of the injury until the date of trial [and for non-economic losses that (he) (she) is reasonably probable to experience in the future]. [In deciding how long the plaintiff may experience such losses in the future, you may need to consider (his) (her) current life expectancy.]
[If a person’s injury requires medical care, that injury is necessarily accompanied by some amount of pain and suffering. Therefore, if you award the plaintiff any damages for past or future medical expenses, you must also award damages for pain and suffering. This means that if you award any medical expenses to the plaintiff, you cannot award zero for the plaintiff’s non-economic damages. If you do so, the case will be returned to you for further deliberation.]
The law does not establish a definite standard for deciding the amount of compensation for non-economic losses, and the law does not require that any witness testify as to the dollar value of non-economic losses. You must exercise your reasonable judgment to decide a fair amount in light of the evidence and your experience.
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 20.06, dated (Rev. 2017); list of updates: March 2017. Prepared by the Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee; published by the Alaska Court System. The Alaska Court System states that these instructions "have not been approved or promulgated by any court or the Alaska Bar Association."
Provenance
- Source
- courts.alaska.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
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