District Court of Appeal of Florida

Trial court's allocation to defendant agency of the entire amount of health care expenses paid by the agency after plaintiff's settlement with a third party in a wrongful death suit is affirmed where plaintiff did not have the right to allocate the settlement funds in such a manner that the Agency would receive less than the full amount of its expenditures for medical assistance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2006
• Published 08/16/2006

Judges

• FLETCHER, Judge., Before FLETCHER, RAMIREZ, and SHEPHERD, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Downs Brill Whitehead & Sage, Pembroke Pines;  Ralph O. Anderson, Davie, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Fowler WhiteBoggs Banker and Hala A. Sandridge and D. Finn Pressly, Tampa;  Floyd B. Faglie, Tallahassee, for appellee.