District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order denying plaintiff's motion for attorneys' fees in a medical malpractice action involving surgical packing gauze left in her abdomen during surgery is affirmed where a proposal for settlement, which was the basis for the fees sought, was an undifferentiated proposal to defendant-doctor and her professional association.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2006
• Published 12/06/2006

Judges

• ALTENBERND, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Schifino, Jr., V. Stephen Cohen, and Shane B. Vogt of Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Vance R. Dawson and Laura B. Floyd of Rissman, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue & McLain, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees.