PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST v. ROLLE

No. 3D10-1018.

88 So.3d 191 (2011)

The PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Petitioner/Appellant, v. Shaniah ROLLE, etc., et al., Respondents/Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.A. Cuevas, Jr. , County Attorney, and Eric K. Gressman , Assistant County Attorney; Fowler, White, Burnett, et al., and Christopher E. Knight and June Galkoski Hoffman ; Hall Booth Smith & Slover and Jack G. Gresh , Pro-Hac Vice, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner/appellant.

Burlington & Rockenbach and Philip M. Burlington , West Palm Beach; Sheldon J. Schlesinger and Crane A. Johnston , Ft.Lauderdale; Michael B. Solomon , for respondents/appellees.

Before WELLS, C.J., and SHEPHERD and SALTER, JJ.


SHEPHERD, J.

The Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County petitions for certiorari relief from a trial court order denying its motion for summary judgment on its defense of sovereign immunity and motion for judgment on the pleadings, asserting it was immune from liability under Florida's Good Samaritan Act, section 768.13 of the Florida Statutes (2004). We deny the petition.

This is a ten-year-old medical malpractice case in which the respondents, Shaniah...

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