SILVA v. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BLOOD BANK, INC.

No. 90-02200.

578 So.2d 503 (1991)

Gerald SILVA, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Anne Marie N. Silva, Deceased, Appellant, v. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BLOOD BANK, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Ronald Fraley of Fraley & Fraley, P.A., and Robert A. Foster, Jr. of Robert A. Foster, Jr., P.A., Tampa, for appellant.

Ted R. Manry, III, D. James Kadyk, and Harold D. Oehler of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for appellee.


HALL, Judge.

The appellant, Gerald Silva, as the personal representative of his deceased wife's estate, challenges the order dismissing his cause with prejudice due to the running of the statute of limitations. Silva contends the trial court erroneously applied the medical malpractice statute of limitations because his cause of action sounds in negligence.

In August 1985, Silva's wife received multiple units of cryoprecipitate, a blood component, immediately...

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