LOWDER v. FAMILY HEALTH CENTER, INC.

No. 94-2542.

680 So.2d 1133 (1996)

Vernelle LOWDER, Appellant, v. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC., a Florida corporation, d/b/a Economic Opportunity Family Health Center a/k/a Family Health Center, Inc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe N. Unger; Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel, Miami; Steven Mitchell and Mitchell & Associates, for appellant.

Diaz & Morel-Saruski, Coral Gables; Hicks Anderson & Blum and Jean Kneale and Gina E. Caruso, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and GERSTEN, JJ.


COPE, Judge.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether the plaintiff should have been allowed in closing argument to assert that the jury should draw an adverse inference from the fact that defendant corporation did not call a former employee as a witness. We conclude that the trial court ruling was proper, as was the trial court's refusal to grant a related jury instruction on this issue. We also reject plaintiff's claim that there was an improper...

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