Civil Jury Instructions Updated for 2021

The Wisconsin Civil Jury Instructions have recently been updated, with a 2021 release approved by the Wisconsin Judicial Conference’s Civil Jury Instructions Committee. The fifty-second supplement to the Civil Jury Instructions updates the publication on legislative actions and judicial decisions through January 21, 2021.

The update includes revisions of ten existing jury instructions, as well as one new instruction. New to the set is:

• JI-Civil 358 Subsequent remedial measures.

The following instructions have been updated:

• 1023 Medical Negligence
• 1023.5 Professional Negligence: Legal - Status of Lawyer as a Specialist is not in Dispute
• 1023.6 Negligence of Insurance Agent
• 1500 Cause
• 1900.4 Safe Place Statute: Injury to Frequenter: Negligence of Employer or Owner of a Place of Employment
• 2400 Misrepresentation: Bases for Liability and Damages
• 2418 Unfair Trade Practice: Untrue, Deceptive, or Misleading Representation: Wis. Stat. § 100.18(1)
• 3200 Products Liability: Law Note
• 5001 Paternity: Child of Unmarried Woman
• 8035 Highway or Sidewalk Defect or Insufficiency

Earlier this year the Library partnered with the Office of Judicial Education to debut free access to the Wisconsin Jury Instructions on our website. While updated instructions can be downloaded at any time from our website, many readers may wish to keep their print sets up-to-date. Updating an existing set of print instructions works just as it has in prior years.

Download and print the fifty-second release. Blank pages have been inserted to make double sided printing easier. File new and updated instructions, along with the updated table of cases and index in your print set. A complete, printable file of all the current Civil Jury Instructions and finding aids is also available.

For information on the status of the Committee's work, please contact Bryce Pierson at bryce.pierson@wicourts.gov.