VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 8.020
Issues and Allocation of Burden of Proof
In order to recover against (name of employer), the plaintiff has the burden of proving by the
greater weight of the evidence that (name of employee) was the employee of (name of employer),
that (name of employee) was negligent while acting within the scope of his employment, and that
this negligence proximately caused damage to the plaintiff.
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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