CO · jury_instructions
CJI-Civ. 15:2
Negligence — Nonspecialist — Defined
A physician is negligent when the physician (does an act that reasonably careful
physicians would not do) (or) (fails to do an act that reasonably careful physicians would
do).
To determine whether a physician’s conduct was negligent, you must compare that
conduct with what a physician having and using the knowledge and skill of physicians
practicing in the same field of practice, in the same or similar locality, at the same time,
would or would not have done under the same or similar circumstances.
History
CJI-Civ. (2026), Colorado Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions. Dated 2026-02-25 by the committee page's "Revised 2/25/26".
Provenance
- Source
- www.coloradojudicial.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- civ-2026-02-25
- Content hash
b78e7de3ae322e2f6c867d0956745f4a0a04e0462b210797dc2d192dbe460059
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