WILSON v. BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HOSP.

No. 85-2019.

511 So.2d 313 (1987)

Lucille WILSON, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Scott Wilson, Deceased, Appellant, v. BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, INC., a Florida Corporation, and Terry Cohen, M.D., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Rudmann of Martin Zevin, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellant.

Richard A. Sherman of Law Offices of Richard A. Sherman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.


LETTS, Judge.

This appeal stems from a final judgment based on a jury verdict absolving a treating physician from any negligence which was the legal cause of death of a patient who had somehow ingested paraquat. At the charge conference, the patient's estate requested an instruction on concurring cause which the trial court denied. We affirm.

Without question, the patient died of paraquat poisoning. Thus, while there was some reference to a suicide attempt...

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