M.S.S. BY BLACKWELL v. DeMAIO

No. 86-2039.

503 So.2d 1384 (1987)

M.S.S., a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem and Next Friend, Bruce B. BLACKWELL, Esq., Petitioners, v. Robert J. DeMAIO, M.D., et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delia A. Doyle, Daytona Beach, and Dan H. Honeywell of Wooten, Honeywell & Kest, P.A., Orlando, for petitioners.

Kenneth R. Segal of Taraska, Grower & Unger, P.A., Orlando, for respondents Robert J. DeMaio, M.D., John D. Guarneri, M.D., and Robert J. DeMaio, M.D., P.A.

R. Barry Morgan of Adams, Hill, Fulford & Morgan, Orlando, for respondent Winter Park Memorial Hosp.


COBB, Judge.

Petitioner, a minor plaintiff in a medical malpractice action, seeks certiorari review of an order directing his parents to answer deposition questions or risk dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint.1 Christine Shelton, the mother of petitioner, filed the medical malpractice action as the plaintiff's "next friend." The complaint sought damages for the minor plaintiff's prenatal and neonatal neurological injuries allegedly...

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