VARIETY CHILDREN'S HOSP., INC. v. PERKINS

Nos. 79-158, 79-627.

382 So.2d 331 (1980)

VARIETY CHILDREN's HOSPITAL, INC., Appellant, v. Thomas PERKINS and Sharon Perkins, etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blackwell, Walker, Gray, Powers, Flick & Hoehl and James E. Tribble, Miami, for appellant.

Fazio, Dawson, Steinberg & DiSalvo, Nancy Little Hoffman, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, BARKDULL and SCHWARTZ, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Judge.

Variety Children's Hospital appeals from a $1.2 million judgment entered on a general jury verdict against it in a malpractice action. We affirm.

The case was founded upon allegedly negligent post-operative care rendered to the then-four-month-old Anthony Perkins by the hospital's residents and nurses on the night of July 18-19, 1975. Anthony had been admitted to Variety by a private pediatric and thoracic surgeon, Dr. William Brown, for a...

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