13-1821. Future damages; extent and amount.
If you have found that plaintiff is entitled to damages arising in the future, you must determine the amount of such damages.
If these damages are of a continuing nature, you may consider how long they will continue.
[As to loss of future earning ability, you may consider that some persons work all their lives and others do not and that a person's earnings may remain the same or may increase or decrease in the future.]
USE NOTES
This instruction may be applicable to various types of damages and should be given when there is proper evidence that damages will, in fact, exist in the future.
If the prospective damages involve earning capacity then the third paragraph will be given and the brackets will be removed. However, the third paragraph applies only to earning capacity and not to any other type of future damages. Use with UJI 13-1803 or 13-1830.
UJI 13-1805 will also be given when the evidence presents an issue of permanency of an injury to an individual.