Florida Statute 768.22 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 768
NEGLIGENCE

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768.22 Form of verdict.—The amounts awarded to each survivor and to the estate shall be stated separately in the verdict.

History.—s. 1, ch. 72-35.

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Amendments to 768.22

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Cases Citing Statute 768.22

Total Results: 10

Marks v. Delcastillo

386 So. 2d 1259

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 5, 1980 | Docket: 477481

Cited 28 times | Published

accident. In the separate verdicts required by Section 768.22 Florida Statutes (1977), it awarded damages

Laizure v. Avante at Leesburg, Inc.

109 So. 3d 752, 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 102, 2013 WL 535417, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 249

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 14, 2013 | Docket: 60229788

Cited 12 times | Published

estate shall be stated separately in the verdict.” § 768.22, Fla. Stat. (2008). Because this case also involves

Adkins v. Seaboard Coast Line RR Co.

351 So. 2d 1088

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Nov 30, 1977 | Docket: 1671781

Cited 9 times | Published

conflicted with the instruction [as well as Section 768.22, Florida Statutes (1975)] that the jury should

Wiggins v. Estate of Wright

850 So. 2d 444, 2003 WL 21196836

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: May 22, 2003 | Docket: 1783577

Cited 7 times | Published

that each is entitled to under the statute. See § 768.22, Fla. Stat. (1999) (damages for each survivor

Ding v. Jones

667 So. 2d 894, 1996 WL 46704

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 7, 1996 | Docket: 99777

Cited 6 times | Published

the recovery of any other survivor." Finally, section 768.22 provides: "The amounts awarded to each survivor

Capiello v. Goodnight

357 So. 2d 225

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 31, 1978 | Docket: 453812

Cited 4 times | Published

the decedent's "survivors" and estate, and Section 768.22 envisions a verdict in separate amounts for

Wiggins v. Estate of Wright

786 So. 2d 1247, 2001 WL 667741

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 15, 2001 | Docket: 1681904

Cited 2 times | Published

the recovery of any other survivor." Finally, section 768.22 provides, "The amounts awarded to each survivor

WG Evergreen Woods SH, LLC v. Fares

207 So. 3d 993, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 19239

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 30, 2016 | Docket: 63631913

Cited 1 times | Published

section 429.297(1), Florida Statutes (2015), and section 768.22, Florida Statutes (2015). Specifically, Petitioners’

David L. Ross v. City of Jacksonville

274 So. 3d 1180

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 12, 2019 | Docket: 15762814

Published

appellate court has interpreted that section. Section 768.22(9)(a), a similar provision, grants immunity

Letchworth v. Pannone

168 So. 3d 288, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 9739, 2015 WL 3903536

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 26, 2015 | Docket: 60248634

Published

1987), superseded by statute on other grounds, § 768.22, Fla. Stat. (1989), as stated in Henn v. Sandler

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