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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 7.07
Strict Liability in Tort - Legal Cause
I will now define “legal cause” for you. A defective condition in a product is a legal cause of harm if it is a substantial factor in bringing about the harm.
A defective condition in a product is a substantial factor in bringing about the harm if it is more likely true than not true that:
(1) the defective condition in the product was so important in bringing about the harm that a reasonable person would regard it as a cause and attach responsibility to it; and
(2) the harm would not have occurred but for the defective condition of the product. (There is, however, one exception to the requirement that the harm would not have occurred but for the defective condition. If two separate forces operated to cause the harm, one because of the defective condition of the product and the other not, and each force by itself was sufficient to cause the harm, then the defective condition is a legal cause of the harm if you decide that the defective condition was so important in bringing about the harm that a reasonable person would regard the defective condition as a cause and attach responsibility to it).
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 7.07, dated (Rev. 1995). 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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