District Court of Appeal of Florida

Jury award of compensatory and punitive damages against two former professional baseball players for their unprovoked attack on plaintiffs at a nightclub is affirmed where: 1) it is not necessary to introduce expert testimony before admitting medical bills into evidence; 2) the defendants' conduct satisfied the requirements for intentional infliction of emotional distress; 3) intentional battery supplies the requisite proof of malice, justifying a punitive damages award; and 4) the court did not err in holding defendants jointly and severally liable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2006
• Published 10/04/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before GERSTEN, GREEN, and SUAREZ, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert O. Saunooke, Miramar, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli, Esco & DiMatteo, and Christienne H. Sherouse, and Anne C. Sullivan, Coral Gables;  Podhurst Orseck, and Stephen F. Rosenthal, Miami, for appellees.