VANDERGRIFT v. FORT PIERCE MEM. HOSP., INC.

No. 76-1636.

354 So.2d 398 (1978)

Jimmie E. VANDERGRIFT and Dorothy E. Vandergrift, His Wife, Appellants, v. FORT PIERCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., and Continental Insurance Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edna L. Caruso of Montgomery, Lytal, Reiter, Denney & Searcy, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

George H. Moss, II, of Jones, Paine & Foster, P.A., Vero Beach, for appellees.


ALDERMAN, Chief Judge.

Mr. and Mrs. Vandergrift, plaintiffs in this medical malpractice case, appeal from a final judgment which awarded $12,500 to Mr. Vandergrift and nothing to his wife. The judgment is based upon a jury verdict which determined Mr. Vandergrift's total damages to be $125,000 and found him to be 90 percent negligent and the defendant hospital to be 10 percent negligent. The primary issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying the plaintiffs...

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