occur without anyone’s negligence”). We see no harm in explaining to the jury through an inferential rebuttal instruction that no such implication is intended. But giving multiple instructions on every possible rebuttal inference has the potential to skew the jury’s analysis in the other direction. As we have noted, the Texas Pattern Jury Charges presently parse inferential rebuttal defenses into five separate instructions. Comm. On Pattern Jury Charges, State Bar of Tex., Texas Pattern Jury Charges — General Negligence & Intentional Personal Torts PJC 3.1-3.5 (2003). Many of these instructions overlap to create redundancies that encourage parties to request several so that the point can be repeatedly emphasized. See Schuhmacher Co. v. Holcomb, 142 Tex. 332, 177 S.W.2d 951, 953 (1944) (<HOLDING>). For example, an occurrence caused by severe
holding that the defendant who is the same defendant as in this case clearly is entitled to headofstate immunity holding the same holding defendant was entitled to both unavoidableaccident and soleproximatecause instructions despite objection that this allowed defendant to slice two defenses from precisely the same facts holding that the defendant could not raise affirmative defenses initially in its dispositive motion but remanding the case to the trial court to determine if leave to amend answer to incorporate affirmative defenses was appropriate so that the defendant could then properly raise those defenses in its dispositive motion holding that two suits related to the same set of facts because they both concerned the events leading to the plaintiffs termination