401.18d Issues on Plaintiff's Claim - General Negligence - Railroad, Airline, or Bus Line Negligence The [next] issues you must decide on (claimant)'s claim against (defendant) are: whether (defendant) was negligent in the operation of its [train] [airplane] [bus], and, if so, whether that negligence was a legal cause of [loss] [injury] [or] [damage] to (claimant, decedent, or person for whose injury claim is made).