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PADDOCK v. CHACKO

No. 86-916.

522 So.2d 410 (1988)

Linda K. PADDOCK, Appellant, v. Chawallur Devassey CHACKO, M.D., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spence, Payne, Masington, Grossman & Needle, P.A., and Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

E. Clay Parker and J. Scott Murphy, of Parker, Johnson, Owen & McGuire, and Harry K. Anderson, Orlando, for appellee.

ORFINGER, Judge.

On June 26, 1983, 35 year old Linda K. Paddock left the home of her parents with whom she had been temporarily residing, ran into a wooded area nearby, and set her clothes on fire with a cigarette lighter after superficially slashing her wrists with her knife. She sued the defendant, a psychiatrist whom she had seen professionally one time some four days earlier, alleging that his negligence proximately caused or contributed to her self-immolation...

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