AWARD AND APPORTIONMENT OF DAMAGES
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 466 F. Supp. 2d 229 - Estate of Heiser v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2006)
Most recently applied in Schultz v. GGNSC St. Paul Lake Ridge LLC (February 2018)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The jury may award damages in an amount proportionate to the injury resulting from the death.
(b) The damages awarded shall be divided, in shares as found by the jury in its verdict, among the individuals who are entitled to recover and who are alive at that time.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.