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EXECUTIVE CAR & TRUCK LEASING v. DeSERIO

Nos. 84-1018, 84-1980.

468 So.2d 1027 (1985)

EXECUTIVE CAR AND TRUCK LEASING, INC., Edythe Hopewell, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert D. Mendelsohn, Industrial Indemnity Company, Commercial Union Insurance Company, Action Bolt & Tool Company, and Allstate Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Alberta DeSerio, et al., Appellees, EXECUTIVE CAR AND TRUCK LEASING, INC., Edythe Hopewell, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert D. Mendelsohn, Deceased, and Industrial Indemnity Company, Appellants, v. Alberta DeSERIO, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Certification Denied May 29, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Powers of Powers & Flanagan, Lake Worth, and Jane Kreusler-Walsh and Larry Klein, of Klein & Beranek, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants, Executive Car and Truck Leasing, Edythe Hopewell, and Indus. Indem. Co.

Eric A. Peterson of Peterson & Fogarty, West Palm Beach, and Richard A. Sherman of Law Offices of Richard A. Sherman, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants, Commercial Union Ins. Co. and Action Bolt & Tool Co.

Michael B. Davis of Walton Lantaff Schroeder & Carson, West Palm Beach, for appellant, Allstate.

Anderson & Anderson, Fort Lauderdale, and Dougald D. McMillan, Dallas, Texas, for appellee, DeSerio.

BARKETT, Judge.

We affirm appellee DeSerio's judgment for damages in the amount of $1,200,000 in this negligence action arising out of an automobile collision. In this appeal we have determined that a clinical psychologist need not be a medical doctor to testify to the existence of organic brain damage, and that medical testimony is not always necessary to show causation of such brain damage.

At trial, there was extensive testimony concerning the nature and...

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