District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment for defendants in a medical malpractice suit is affirmed where plaintiff failed to present any evidence that the defendants' conduct resulted in a "more likely than not" chance of recurrence of breast cancer or that plaintiff suffered any injury because of the defendants' alleged negligence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/21/2006
• Published 06/21/2006

Judges

• GERSTEN, Judge., Before COPE, C.J., and GERSTEN, and SHEPHERD, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Virginia S. Forbes;  Lauri Waldman Ross, Miami, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wicker, Smith, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford, and Shelley H. Leinicke, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees, Robert J. Poppiti, Jr., M.D. and Mt. Sinai Medical Center of Florida, Inc., Parenti, Falk, Waas, Hernandez Cortina, and Gail Leverett Parenti, Coral Gables, for appellee, North Miami Medical Center, Ltd. d/b/a Parkway Regional Medical Center.