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DeROSA v. SHANDS TEACHING HOSP. & CLINICS

No. 88-1765.

549 So.2d 1039 (1989)

Richard F. DeROSA and Kerry C. DeRosa, His Wife, Appellants, v. SHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS, INC., and Florida Board of Regents, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied November 2, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diana Santa Maria, of Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, for appellants.

John D. Jopling, of Dell, Graham, Willcox, Barber, Henderson & Cates, Gainesville, for appellees.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellants seek review of an order awarding attorney's fees to appellees for their successful defense of appellants' medical malpractice action. We find that the fees were properly awarded under section 768.56, Florida Statutes (1983), and we affirm the order appealed.

Appellants filed a medical malpractice action against appellees and several individual physicians. A summary judgment was entered for two of the doctors, but was overturned...

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