VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 47.510
Accident: Insured the Aggressor
If an insured voluntarily provokes, or is the aggressor in, an encounter when he knows, or
reasonably should know, that he will be in danger of bodily injury as the natural or probable
consequence of his act, then his injury in the encounter is not accidental.
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
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