Chapter 19 Comparative Fault

Index

Section 19.1 Generally
Section 19.2 Scope of Chapter
Section 19.3 Gustafson
Section 19.4 Uniform Comparative Fault Act Does Not Control When it Conflicts With Other Missouri Law
Section 19.5 Comparative Fault Is an Affirmative Defense and Must Be Pleaded
Section 19.6 If a Defendant Withdraws Comparative Fault as a Defense, the Plaintiff May Still Be Entitled to a Comparative Fault Instruction
Section 19.7 Comparative Fault Is Not Limited to Claims of Negligence
Section 19.8 Negligence
Section 19.9 Conduct of Defendant
Section 19.10 Conduct of Plaintiff—Rescue Doctrine
Section 19.11 Product Liability Claims
Section 19.12 Other Strict Liability Claims
Section 19.13 Breach of Warranty
Section 19.14 Assumption of Risk
Section 19.15 Misuse of a Product
Section 19.16 Failure to Mitigate
Section 19.17 Premises Liability
Section 19.18 Purely Economic Loss
Section 19.19 No Reduction of Punitive Damages
Section 19.20 Workers’ Compensation
Section 19.21 Official Immunity and Sovereign Immunity
Section 19.22 Fault Is Assessed Only Against Parties Present at Trial
Section 19.23 Effect of One or More Defendants Settling Before Trial
Section 19.24 Reduction of Plaintiff’s Recovery Based on Comparative Fault in Derivative Claims
Section 19.25 Effect of Fault in a Wrongful Death Action
Section 19.26 Missouri Approved Jury Instructions for Comparative Fault Cases
Section 19.27 Claims and Counterclaims Are Not Subject to a Setoff
Section 19.28 Effect of Reversal of a Finding on Liability
Section 19.29 Conflict-of-Law Issues
Section 19.30 Joint and Several Liability and Contribution
Section 19.31 Effect of Gustafson
Section 19.32 2000 Revisions to § 537.067, RSMo
Section 19.33 2005 Revisions to § 537.067, RSMo
Section 19.34 Enforcement of Current Rule Regarding Joint and Several Liability
Section 19.35 Pleadings
Section 19.36 Discovery
Section 19.37 Drugs and Alcohol
Section 19.38 Statutory Violations Related to Comparative Fault
Section 19.39 Fault of Nonparties
Section 19.40 Knowledge of Risk
Section 19.41 Admissions
Section 19.42 Substantial Evidence, Not Mere Conjecture, Is Required
Section 19.43 Jury Question When Evidence of Comparative Fault Is in Conflict
Section 19.44 Comparative Fault of Minors
Section 19.45 Failure to Follow Physician Instructions
Section 19.46 Comparative Fault Submissible
Section 19.47 Comparative Fault Not Submissible
Section 19.48 Railroad Crossing
Section 19.49 Comparative Fault Submissible
Section 19.50 Comparative Fault Not Submissible
Section 19.51 Slip and Fall
Section 19.52 Product Liability
Section 19.53 Construction
Section 19.54 Assumption of Risk
Section 19.55 Legal Malpractice
Section 19.56 Open and Obvious
Section 19.57 Electric Line
Section 19.58 Wrongful Death
Section 19.59 Foreseeable Risk
Section 19.60 Federal Employers’ Liability Act
Section 19.61 MAI 22.03
Section 19.62 Submissibility of the Plaintiff’s Fault
Section 19.63 Assumption of Risk
Section 19.64 Converse Instruction
Section 19.65 Definitions
Section 19.66 Disjunctive Submissions
Section 19.67 Duty to Submit Instruction
Section 19.68 Federal Employers’ Liability Act
Section 19.69 Fault Other Than Negligence
Section 19.70 Invitation of Error
Section 19.71 MAI 17.00 Series
Section 19.72 MAI 19.01
Section 19.73 MAI 37.01 Modification
Section 19.74 Medical Malpractice
Section 19.75 Only One Comparative Fault Instruction Is Given
Section 19.76 Premises Liability
Section 19.77 Preservation of Error
Section 19.78 Product Liability
Section 19.79 Released Parties in Medical Malpractice Cases
Section 19.80 Respondeat Superior
Section 19.81 Requirement of Pleading or Trial by Consent
Section 19.82 Roving Commission
Section 19.83 Standard of Care
Section 19.84 Closing Argument
Section 19.85 Verdict
Section 19.86 Posttrial Motions
Section 19.87 Costs
Section 19.88 Harmless Error—No Fault Assessed to Defendant
Section 19.89 Harmless Error—No Fault Assessed to Plaintiff
Section 19.90 Facts in Evidence
Section 19.91 Preservation of Instructional Error at Trial
Section 19.92 Preservation of Instructional Error on Appeal
Section 19.93 Substantial Evidence to Support the Verdict
Section 19.94 Evidentiary Rulings
Section 19.95 Plaintiff Invited Comparative Fault Instruction
Section 19.96 Generally
Section 19.97 Other Issues
Section 19.98 Aviation
Section 19.99 Pure Comparative Fault vs. Modified Comparative Fault
Section 19.100 Personal Injury Protection Benefits
Section 19.101 Uninsured Motorist Coverage
Section 19.102 Commercial Law
Section 19.103 Construction
Section 19.104 Generally
Section 19.105 Federal Employers’ Liability Act Jury Instructions
Section 19.106 Assumption of Risk in Federal Employers’ Liability Act Cases
Section 19.107 Joint Venture
Section 19.108 Legal Malpractice
Section 19.109 Instructions
Section 19.110 Released Parties in Medical Malpractice
Section 19.111 Contribution
Section 19.112 Settlement
Section 19.113 Submissibility
Section 19.114 Open and Obvious Barred as a Matter of Law
Section 19.115 Plaintiff’s Claim Not Barred as a Matter of Law
Section 19.116 Intervening Cause
Section 19.117 Even if Comparative Fault Is Submissible, Defendant Is Not Entitled
Section 19.118 Submissibility
Section 19.119 Nature of Danger
Section 19.120 Section 537.765, RSMo
Section 19.121 Assumption of Risk
Section 19.122 Contribution
Section 19.123 Sports Law
Section 19.124 Railroad Crossing
Section 19.125 Superseding or Intervening Causes
Section 19.126 Worker’s Compensation Subrogation