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Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 4.020
Concurring Negligence
If two or more persons are negligent, and if the negligence of each is a proximate cause of the
plaintiff’s injury, then each is liable to the plaintiff for his injury. This is true even if the
negligence of one is greater than the negligence of the [other; others].
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
- Content hash
c116754282917e07ec68ec5c82b0ae1ef8db06d6117e81ffc2bd4219cab06aa2
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