LAWNWOOD MEDICAL CENTER INC. v. SADOW

No. 4D08-1968.

43 So.3d 710 (2010)

LAWNWOOD MEDICAL CENTER INC., Appellant, v. Samuel H. SADOW, M.D., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 24, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. England Jr. , Edward G. Guedes and Kerri L. McNulty of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, and William A. Kebler of Banker Lopez Gassler, P.A., St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Major B. Harding , John Beranek and Ruth E. Vafek of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, and Richard H. Levenstein of Kramer Sewell Sopko & Levenstein, Stuart, for appellee.


FARMER, J.

A surgeon with staff privileges sued a hospital for breach of contract, and later added a claim for slander per se, seeking compensatory damages for both claims, as well as punitive damages for the slander. He alleged that the hospital had breached its contract with its medical staff, the Medical Staff Bylaws, by invalidly giving another surgeon exclusive privileges for cardiovascular surgery. The exclusive grant...

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