PAULK v. NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES

No. 94-3363.

679 So.2d 1289 (1996)

Leon PAULK and Mary Paulk, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Jeffrey Scott Paulk, Appellants, v. NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES INC.; NME Psychiatric Hospitals, Inc.; Psychiatric Institutes of America Inc.; and Lake Hospital, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., and Philip M. Burlington of Caruso, Burlington, Bohn & Compiani, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Susan M. Seigle, West Palm Beach, for appellees.


FARMER, Judge.

Plaintiffs sued several hospitals for damages on the theory that the hospitals had operated their hospitals as a criminal enterprise. They alleged that the defendants defrauded their patients by extending their hospitalization, without medical necessity, so that they could exhaust available insurance coverage. As part of their alleged scheme, they assigned patients release dates based on the extent of insurance coverage available, rather than on the...

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