CO · jury_instructions
CJI-Civ. 9:26C
Special Verdict Questions — Mechanics for Submitting — Comparative Negligence of the Plaintiff — No Counterclaim — Single Defendant — No Designated Nonparty (Alternative to Instruction 9:26A)
You are instructed to answer the following questions. You must all agree on your
answers to each question for which an answer is required.
1. Did the plaintiff, (name), have (injuries) (damages) (losses)?
2. Was the defendant, (name), negligent?
3. Was the defendant’s negligence, if any, a cause of any of the (injuries) (damages)
(losses) claimed by the plaintiff?
If your answer to any one or more of the above three questions is “no,” then your
foreperson shall complete only Special Verdict Form A and all jurors shall sign it.
On the other hand, if your answer to all three questions is “yes,” then you shall
answer these questions as well as the following questions on Special Verdict Form B and all
jurors shall sign it.
4. Was the plaintiff, (name), negligent?
5. Was the plaintiff’s negligence, if any, a cause of (insert applicable pronoun) own
claimed (injuries) (damages) (losses)?
If your answer to all five questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 is “yes,” then you shall also
answer the following question 6 on Special Verdict Form B. Otherwise skip question 6 and
go on to question 7.
6. Taking as 100 percent the combined negligence of the defendant and the plaintiff
that caused the plaintiff’s (injuries) (damages) (losses), what percentage of the negligence
was the defendant’s and what percentage was the plaintiff’s?
If you determine that the negligence of the plaintiff was equal to or greater than the
negligence of the defendant, i.e., 50% or more, then skip question 7.
7. State your answers to the following questions relating to the plaintiff’s damages
that were caused by the negligence of the defendant, whether the damages were also caused
by the negligence, if any, of the plaintiff (or anyone else).
a. What is the total amount of plaintiff’s damages, if any, for noneconomic losses or
injuries (, excluding any damages for [physical impairment] [or] [disfigurement])?
Noneconomic losses or injuries are those losses or injuries described in numbered
paragraph 1 of Instruction (insert number of the applicable Instruction on damages).
You should answer “0” if you determine there were none.
b. What is the total amount of plaintiff’s damages, if any, for economic losses (,
excluding any damages for [physical impairment] [or] [disfigurement])? Economic
losses are those losses described in numbered paragraph 2 of Instruction (insert
number of applicable Instruction on damages). You should answer “0” if you
determine there were none.
(c. What is the total amount of plaintiff’s damages, if any, for [physical impairment]
[or] [disfigurement]? You should answer “0” if you determine there were none.)
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
65679dfabf42c6bd9cf5f054d432e328454ae2efa2e4127d4977247b2bc4790e
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