WINTER PARK MEM. HOSP. ASSO. INC. v. JEMISON

No. 86-2125.

514 So.2d 1134 (1987)

WINTER PARK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Appellants, v. David Watkins JEMISON, Etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

November 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet W. Adams of Adams, Hill, Fulford & Morgan, Orlando, for appellants.

David B. King and Mark E. Timmes of King & Blackwell, P.A., Orlando, for appellees.


ORFINGER, Judge.

We affirm the award of attorney's fees to the plaintiffs who prevailed in this medical malpractice action which accrued on July 20, 1983. We reject appellant's contention that because no judgment had been entered prior to the time the repealer became effective, the subsequent repeal of section 768.56 abolished plaintiffs' substantive right to recover attorney's fees. The right to recover attorney's fees became vested when the cause of action accrued...

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