CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 3930
Mitigation of Damages (Personal Injury)
If you decide [name of defendant] is responsible for the original harm,
[name of plaintiff] is not entitled to recover damages for harm that [name
of defendant] proves [name of plaintiff] could have avoided with
reasonable efforts or expenditures.
Y ou should consider the reasonableness of [name of plaintiff]’s efforts in
light of the circumstances facing [him/her/ nonbinary pronoun] at the time,
including [his/her/ nonbinary pronoun] ability to make the efforts or
expenditures without undue risk or hardship.
If [name of plaintiff] made reasonable efforts to avoid harm, then your
award should include reasonable amounts that [he/she/ nonbinary
pronoun] spent for this purpose.
New September 2003
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
6d92d65a6aed1f0f44f779d1df1631ae446472a71998ef3fef06d5e87edb1ad5
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