FL · jury_instructions
Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Civ.) 405.5
ELEMENTS OF DEFAMATION
The issues for you to decide on (claimant’s) claim for defamation are:
First, whether (defendant) published a statement about (claimant);
Second, whether the statement was in some significant respect false and whether [(defendant) was negligent in determining the statement’s truth or falsity] [(defendant) either knew the statement was false or had serious doubts as to its truth];
Third, whether the statement was defamatory; and, if so,
Fourth, whether the defamatory statement was a legal cause of [loss] [injury] [or] [damage] to (claimant).
I will now discuss these issues in greater detail.
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- floridabar.org
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- 2026-08-18
- Edition
- 2026-08-18
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