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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 8.15
Other Professional Malpractice - Duty of Professional Other Than Health Care Provider or Attorney
I will now define for you the negligence of a professional such as the defendant.
A [insert trade or profession] is negligent if [he] [she] [it] fails to exercise that degree of skill that a reasonably prudent, skilled, and qualified [insert trade or profession] would exercise under the circumstances.
If you do not find that the defendant was negligent, you must return a verdict for the defendant. If you do find that the defendant was negligent, you must also decide whether the defendant’s negligence was a legal cause of the plaintiff’s harm. I will now instruct you on legal cause.
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 8.15, dated (Rev. 2002). 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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