District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment for defendant-hospital in a medical malpractice suit is reversed where the trial court erred by entering final summary judgment where the parties presented conflicting evidence giving rise to a jury question regarding the apparent agency of on-call physicians who treated plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/08/2006
• Published 11/08/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rebecca Mercier-Vargas and Jane Kreusler-Walsh of Jane Kreusler-Walsh, P.A., West Palm Beach, and Joseph Johnson of Babbitt, Johnson, Osborne & LeClainche, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant., Gail Leverett Parenti of Parenti & Parenti, P.A., Miami, and William A. Bell, General Counsel, Florida Hospital Association, Tallahassee, for Amicus Curiae Florida Hospital Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Arthur J. England, Jr. and Edward G. Guedes of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, and Bruce M. Ramsey and Kera E. Hagan of Billing, Cochran, Heath, Lyles, Mauro & Anderson, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee Palms West Hospital.