GESSA v. MANOR CARE OF FLORIDA, INC.

No. SC09-768.

86 So.3d 484 (2011)

Angela I. GESSA, etc., Petitioner, v. MANOR CARE OF FLORIDA, INC., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied April 17, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan B. Morrison , of the Law Office of Susan Morrison, Tampa, FL, James L. Wilkes, III , Isaac R. Ruiz-Carus , and Blair N. Mendes of Wilkes and McHugh, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Petitioners.

Matthew J. Conigliaro , Sylvia J. Walbolt , and Annette Marie Lang of Carlton Fields, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL, for Respondents.

Karen L. Goldsmith and Jonathan S. Grout of Goldsmith and Grout, P.A., on behalf of Florida Health Care Associations; Cynthia S. Tunnicliff and Ashley P. Mayer of Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell, and Dunbar, P.A., on behalf of Florida Justice Reform Institute and Florida Medical Association; and Steven Geoffrey Sieseler , Stuart, Florida, on behalf of Pacific Legal Foundation, As Amici Curiae.


PERRY, J.

Angela I. Gessa seeks review of the decision of the Second District Court of Appeal in Gessa v. Manor Care of Florida, Inc., 4 So.3d 679 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009), on the ground that it expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of another Florida district court of appeal on a question of law.1 We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.

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