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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 3.14
Gross Negligence Defined
I will now define gross negligence for you.
First you must understand what ordinary negligence means. Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care, which is the amount of care a reasonably careful person would use in the same situation. Gross negligence is an extreme departure from this standard. Gross negligence means more than ordinary inadvertence or inattention, but less than conscious indifference to consequences.
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 3.14, 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
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