MT. SINAI HOSP., GR. MIAMI v. MEDINA

Nos. 84-2743, 84-2754, 84-2782, 85-392 and 85-393.

484 So.2d 638 (1986)

MT. SINAI Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc., Florida Patient's Compensation Fund and Variety Children's Hospital, a Florida Corporation, Appellants. v. Alejandro MEDINA and Zulema Medina, and Javier Medina, a Minor, Appellees. Alejandro MEDINA and Zulema Medina, and Javier Medina, a Minor, Appellants. v. MT. SINAI HOSPITAL OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., Florida Patient's Compensation Fund and Variety Children's Hospital, a Florida Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelner & Kelner and Milton Kelner, Talburt, Kubicki, Bradley & Draper and Betsy E. Gallagher, Miami, Milton D. Adkins and H. Lawrence Hardy, Coral Gables, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Edward Perse, Ratiner & Glinn, Miami, for appellees/cross-appellants.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

We affirm the final judgment upon a holding that the expert testimony and evidence presented by the Medinas constitute sufficient proof that the injury to their infant son "more likely than not resulted from the [hospitals'] negligence ... [and that what the doctors] failed to [do] probably would have affected the outcome." Gooding v. University Hospital Building, Inc., 445 So.2d 1015, 1020 (Fla. 1984). Thus,...

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