M Civ JI 66.01 Form of Verdict: Comparative Negligence

We, the jury, make the following answers to the questions submitted by the Court:

QUESTION NO. 1: Was the defendant negligent?

Answer: ____(yes or no)

If your answer is “no,” do not answer any further questions.

QUESTION NO. 2: Was the defendant’s negligence a proximate cause of the injury or damage to the plaintiff?

Answer: ____(yes or no)

If your answer is “no,” do not answer any further questions.

QUESTION NO. 3: What is the total amount of plaintiff’s damages?

Answer: $________.____

QUESTION NO. 4: Was the plaintiff negligent?

Answer: ____(yes or no)

If your answer is “no,” do not answer any further questions.

QUESTION NO. 5: Was the plaintiff’s negligence a proximate cause of the injury or damage to the plaintiff?

Answer: ____(yes or no)

If your answer is “no,” do not answer any further questions.

QUESTION NO. 6: Using 100 percent as the total combined negligence which proximately caused the injury or damage to the plaintiff, what percentage of such negligence is attributable to the plaintiff?

Answer: ____ percent

Please note that the Court will reduce the total amount of plaintiff’s damages entered in QUESTION NO. 3 by the percentage of negligence attributable to plaintiff, if any, entered in QUESTION NO. 6. The remainder will be the amount which plaintiff is entitled to recover.

Signed,

____________________________ _______________________

Foreperson Date

Note on Use

Where there are multiple plaintiffs or defendants, the appropriate questions should be asked separately as to each one.

A separate Special Verdict sheet should be furnished to the jury for each plaintiff and each defendant.

History

M Civ JI 66.01 was added September 1980.