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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 3.07
Substantial Factor
Negligence is a substantial factor in causing harm if:
(1) the harm would not have occurred without the negligence; and
(2) the negligence was important enough in causing the harm that a reasonable person would hold the negligent person responsible. The negligence cannot be a remote or trivial factor.
[Number (1) does not apply if two events operated to cause the harm, one because of the defendant’s negligence and the other not, and each event by itself was sufficient to cause the harm.]
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 3.07, dated (2008). 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
7d52bfc909540c7b6ab81e87b87b1e153b9593a2dedd74793054bac2fbf85598
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