FLORIDA PATIENTS COMP. FUND v. JOHNSON EX REL. JOHNSON

No. 87-0538.

538 So.2d 875 (1988)

FLORIDA PATIENTS COMPENSATION FUND and Moises Borten, M.D., Appellants, v. Rolanda JOHNSON, a Minor, by and through Her Parents and Next Friends, Benny Johnson and Barbara Johnson, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan L. Dolin, Rex Conrad and Valerie Shea of Conrad, Scherer & James, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant-Florida Patients Fund.

Thomas C. Heath of Billing, Cochran & Heath, P.A., and Nancy Little Hoffman, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant-Moises Borten, M.D.

Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, and Larry Klein of Klein & Beranek, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellees.


DOWNEY, Judge.

This is a timely appeal from a final judgment awarding $378,300 in attorneys' fees and $11,831.59 in costs against the North Broward Hospital District, d/b/a Broward General Medical Center, Moises Borten, M.D. (the doctor), and Florida Patients Compensation Fund (the Fund) in a medical malpractice action. The case is a companion case to North Broward Hospital District, d/b/a Broward General Medical Center v. Johnson, et al., Case No. 4-86-2419...

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