In re Standard Jury Instructions—Civil Cases No. 94-1

The Florida Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions (Civil) recommends that The Florida Bar be authorized to publish as an addition to Florida Standard Jury Instructions (Civil) a new instruction entitled “Outrageous Conduct Causing Severe Emotional Distress.”

The Committee points out that this instruction is offered in response to a request from a member of The Florida Bar and in recognition of a number of decisions of this Court and Florida’s district courts of appeal. The Committee began consideration of the instruction in February 1992. A proposed version was published in The…