E.C. JOHNSON v. CRAWFORD

No. 77-233.

361 So.2d 741 (1978)

E.C. JOHNSON, M.D., Petitioner, v. Herbert J. CRAWFORD, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Marcus Crawford, a Deceased Minor and Everglades Memorial Hospital, a Florida Corporation, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Klein, West Palm Beach, and DeSantis, Cook, Meehan & Cohen, North Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Edward A. Perse of Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Stanley M. Rosenblatt, Miami, for respondents.


CROSS, Judge.

We treat as a petition for a common law writ of certiorari an interlocutory appeal seeking review of an order terminating jurisdiction of a medical mediation panel.

Petitioner is one of two original defendants in a medical malpractice mediation proceeding. Petitioner, with consent of opposing counsel, delayed filing an answer beyond the twenty-day statutory limit provided in § 768.44(1)(c), Florida Statutes (Supp. 1977). The judicial referee...

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