District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order awarding attorneys' fees and costs against a doctor and his professional association in a wrongful death action is reversed in part as to the award of attorneys' fees where it was predicated on an invalid demand for judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2006
• Published 04/07/2006

Judges

• CANADY, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rafael E. Martinez, Michelle M. Perez-Sotolongo, and Mary Jaye Debari of McEwan, Martinez & Dukes, P.A., Orlando, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edna L. Caruso of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach;  George A. Vaka of Vaka, Larson & Johnson, P.L., Tampa;  and Karen E. Terry and John A. Shipley of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Appellees.