District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order entered by an administrative law judge on the issues of compensability and notice under Florida's Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act (NICA) is affirmed where there was no error in a conclusion that defendant proved that it had complied with NICA's pre-delivery notice provisions, or in the ALJ's reliance on particular testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2006
• Published 03/24/2006

Judges

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christian D. Searcy, Darryl L. Lewis and Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach, and Philip M. Burlington, of Burlington & Rockenbach, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wilbur E. Brewton, Kelly B. Plante and Tana D. Storey of Roetzel & Andress, L.P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellee NICA., Henry W. Jewett, II, Jennings L. Hurt, III, Christian P. Trowbridge of Rissman, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue & McLain, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees Alejandro J. Pena, M.D., Marc W. Bischof, M.D., and Physician Associates of Florida, Inc.