LIFEMARK HOSP. OF FLORIDA v. HURLEY

No. 91-1628.

596 So.2d 1196 (1992)

LIFEMARK HOSPITAL OF FLORIDA, d/b/a Ami Palmetto General Hospital, Appellant, v. Anndra HURLEY and Robert Hurley, her husband, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaebe Murphy Mullen Antonelli & Gerlin, P.A., Coral Gables, Elizabeth Koebel Russo and Robert S. Glazier, Coconut Grove, for appellant.

Williams, Brasfield, Wertz, Fuller, Goldman, Freeman & Lovell, P.A., St. Petersburg, James C. Blecke, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Lifemark Hospital of Florida, Inc., appeals from a final judgment entered on a jury verdict finding it 100% liable in a premises liability case. We affirm.

The hospital relies on the "step in the dark" rule of contributory negligence for the proposition that, as a matter of law, in this case the plaintiff was comparatively negligent. See, e.g., Delany v. Breeding's Homestead Drug Co., 93 So.2d 116 (Fla...

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