LAKE HOSP. AND CLINIC, INC. v. SILVERSMITH

Nos. 4-86-1851, 4-86-1870, 4-86-1898, 4-86-2345 and 4-86-2692.

551 So.2d 538 (1989)

LAKE HOSPITAL AND CLINIC, INC., Psychiatric Institutes of America, Inc., National Medical Enterprises, Inc., Jesse J. Kaye and Alan T. Penn, Appellants/Cross Appellees, v. Norman SILVERSMITH, M.D., Appellee/Cross Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1989.

Motions for Clarification, Rehearing, Rehearing and Certification Denied December 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Klein of Klein, Beranek, & Walsh, Earl Denny of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, and Nancy P. Maxwell of Metzger, Sonneborn & Rutter, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants/cross appellees.

Philip Burlington and Edna L. Caruso of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., and Richard D. Schuler, of Schuler and Wilkerson, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee/cross appellant.


Motions for Clarification, Rehearing, Rehearing en Banc and Certification Denied December 1, 1989.

ANSTEAD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment awarding appellee, Dr. Norman Silversmith, compensatory and punitive damages arising out of the termination of his medical staff privileges at Lake Hospital and Clinic, Inc., a private psychiatric hospital. We reverse.

Silversmith filed an action against National Medical Enterprises, Inc. (NME),...

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