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Damages allowed in a Virginia (VA) wrongful death case
The following is the exact jury instruction used by personal injury lawyers in a Virginia Circuit Court for wrongful death lawsuits. The judge uses this damages instruction to tell the jury the law about what compensation the family whose loved one was killed may receive, itemizing the categories of loss.If you find your verdict for the plaintiff, then in determining the damages to which he is entitled, you shall include, but are not limited to, any of the following which you believe by the greater weight of the evidence were caused by the negligence of the defendant as damages suffered by the beneficiaries:
(1) Any sorrow, mental anguish, and loss of solace suffered by the beneficiaries. Solace may include society, companionship, comfort, guidance, kindly offices, and advice of the decedent.
(2) Any reasonably expected loss in income of the decedent suffered by the beneficiaries; and
(3) Any reasonably expected loss of services, protection, care, and assistance which the decedent provided to the beneficiaries.
(4) Any expense for the care treatment, and hospitalization of the decedent incident to the injury resulting in his death; and
(5) Reasonable funeral expenses.
If you award damages under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) above, you may distribute these damages among [between] (name of spouse, children, and children of the deceased child of decedent) or (names of surviving statutory beneficiaries).
If you award damages under (4) and (5) above, you shall specifically state the amount of damages for each.
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- My wife died in a car accident in Virginia. Am I entitled to bring a wrongful death claim against the driver who caused the accident?
- I think I have a wrongful death claim in Virginia as my wife died from injuries in a car crash, but how does a court calculate loss of comfort, sorrow, mental anguish and solace?
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