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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 4.07
Wrongful Death Damages - Loss of Assistance or Services
The _____ and _____ items of economic loss claimed by the plaintiff are the past and future loss of assistance or services that [decedent] reasonably could have been expected to give to [statutory beneficiary], if [decedent] had continued to live. A past loss of assistance or services refers to a loss from the date of death, [insert date], to the date of trial, [insert date]. A future loss of assistance or services refers to a loss from the date of trial to the end of [decedent]’s ordinary life expectancy.
In fixing this amount for each individual beneficiary, you may consider, along with other evidence, the willingness of [decedent] to provide assistance or services; the nature of the assistance or services customarily provided by [decedent] in the past; the assistance or services reasonably expected to be provided by a [insert relationship of deceased to the beneficiar(y)(ies), e. g., husband to his wife, mother to her adult son]; and how long [decedent] would have provided such assistance or services. You make an award for assistance or services even though [decedent] was under no legal obligation to provide such assistance or services.
[Any award for future loss of assistance or services must be reduced to present cash value. I will explain in a few minutes the meaning or present cash value and how to reduce to present cash value.]
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 4.07, dated Revised 2013. 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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