PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST OF DADE CTY. v. VALCIN

No. 67673.

507 So.2d 596 (1987)

PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST OF DADE COUNTY, d/b/a Jackson Memorial Hospital, Petitioner, v. Gregoria VALCIN, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller Walton and George W. Chesrow of Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson, Miami, for petitioner.

William A. Bell, Tallahassee, for intervenor/petitioner, Florida Hosp. Ass'n.

Arnold R. Ginsberg of Horton, Perse & Ginsberg, and Virgin & Kray, P.A., Miami, for respondents.


ADKINS (Ret.). Justice.

In reversing in part the summary judgment resolving all issues in a medical malpractice action in favor of defendant/petitioner Public Health Trust of Dade County, d/b/a Jackson Memorial Hospital (Hospital) and against plaintiff/respondent Gregoria Valcin (Valcin), the district court adopted a scheme of evidentiary presumptions to be utilized when the absence of surgical operative notes impairs the plaintiff's ability to establish his case...

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