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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 71.010: AWARD AND APPORTIONMENT OF DAMAGES.

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  1. CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE
  2. TITLE 4. LIABILITY IN TORT
  3. CHAPTER 71. WRONGFUL DEATH; SURVIVAL; INJURIES OCCURRING OUT OF STATE
  4. SUBCHAPTER A. WRONGFUL DEATH

(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.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.

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