HOSPITAL CORP. OF AMERICA v. LINDBERG

Nos. 74466, 74563 and 74564.

571 So.2d 446 (1990)

HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, etc., Petitioner, v. Kurt LINDBERG, et Ux., Respondents. Jaime ALALU, M.D., et al., Petitioners, v. Kurt LINDBERG, et Ux., Respondents. Robert K.T. Liem, M.D., et al., Petitioners, v. Kurt Lindberg, et Ux., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie Arma Kraft of Conrad, Scherer & James, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner Hospital Corp. of America.

Debra J. Snow and Robert M. Klein of Stephens, Lynn, Klein & McNicholas, P.A., Miami, for petitioners Jaime Alalu, M.D. and Jaime Alalu, M.D., P.A.'s.

Scott H. Michaud and Michael K. Mittelmark of Parker, Johnson, Owen, McGuire, Michaud, Lang & Kruppenbacher, Deerfield Beach, for petitioners Robert K.T. Liem, M.D., et al.

Russell S. Bohn of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach, and Thompson and O'Brien, Fort Lauderdale, for respondents.


OVERTON, Justice.

The petitioners in these three consolidated cases seek to have this court review Lindberg v. Hospital Corp. of America, 545 So.2d 1384 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal held section 768.57,1 Florida Statutes (1985), constitutional, finding that a plaintiff's failure to comply with the statute's presuit screening process was not fatal to the plaintiff...

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