NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 106.16
PERSONAL INJURY DAMAGES-FUTURE WORTH IN PRESENT VALUE.
Any amount you allow as future damages for [medical expenses]
[loss of earnings] [pain and suffering] [scars and disfigurement] [loss (of
use) of part of the body] [permanent injury] [state any other type of
damage supported by the evidence] must be reduced to its present value,
because a smaller sum received now is equal to a larger sum received in
the future.
(Notwithstanding, there is evidence before you that the calculation
of the plaintiff's future [medical expenses] [loss of earnings] [pain and
suffering] [scars and disfigurement] [loss (of use) of part of the body]
[permanent injury] [state any other type of damage supported by the
evidence] [has] [have] already been reduced to [its] [their] present
value(s). Whether [it] [they] [has] [have] in fact been so reduced is for
you to determine from the evidence using logic and common sense.
Therefore, if you find that any type of future damage has already been
reduced to its present value, you must not reduce it again.)
History
N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 106.16 (May 2000). Prepared by the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges' Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, assisted by the UNC School of Government; published by the School of Government.
Provenance
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- sog.unc.edu
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
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