District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment for defendants in a personal injury action involving multiple and separate car accidents is affirmed where the trial court properly refused under the Frye standard to allow plaintiff to offer expert testimony that she suffered from fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome caused by trauma.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2005
• Published 12/23/2005

Judges

• GRIFFIN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John T. Stemberger, of Law Offices of John Stemberger, P.A., Orlando, and Shannon L. Akins, of Law Offices of Shannon L. Akins, Orlando, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph Currier Brock, and Steven W. Igou, Orlando, for Appellees, Robert Earl Valyou, Jr., and Deborah A. Valyou., Jane H. Clark, of Clark & Pardy, P.A., Ocoee, and Elizabeth C. Wheeler, of Elizabeth C. Wheeler, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees, Thomas J. Burke and Donna E. Burke., E. Peyton Hodges and Robert W. Mixson, of Cameron, Hodges, Coleman, LaPointe & Wright, P.A., Orlando, for Appellee, PV Holding Corp.