MOORE BY AND THROUGH MOORE v. MORRIS

No. 81-2588.

429 So.2d 1209 (1983)

Megan MOORE, a Minor, BY and THROUGH Her Parents and Next Friends, Henry MOORE and Susan Moore, and Henry Moore and Susan Moore, Individually, Appellants, v. Chester MORRIS, M.D., Arthur Schatz, M.D., William J. Brewster, M.D. and North Shore Hospital, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sams, Gerstein & Ward and Walter Ward, Miami, for appellants.

Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Davant, Tutan, O'Hara & McCoy and Richard A. Sherman, Joe N. Unger, Preddy, Kutner & Hardy, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and JORGENSON, JJ.


BARKDULL, Judge.

Appellants, as plaintiffs, filed a medical malpractice action against the defendants seeking damages for injuries sustained by the infant child at birth. The trial judge entered summary judgment for the defendants finding that the action was barred by the statute of limitations,1 as the parents were put on notice at the time of the birth of the infant of the alleged negligent conduct or injury.

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