MIKES v. CITY OF HOLLYWOOD

Nos. 96-0293, 96-0477.

687 So.2d 1381 (1997)

Sheila MIKES and Robert Mikes, her husband, Appellants, v. The CITY OF HOLLYWOOD, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Curtis and Barbara A. Curtis of Curtis & Curtis, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Richard T. Kilgore, Senior Assistant City Attorney, and Jamie Cole, City Attorney, Hollywood, for appellee.


STEVENSON, Judge.

The central issue of this appeal from the final judgment entered in a personal injury suit concerns the trial court's post-verdict order permitting the defendant to setoff from the economic damages award owed to the plaintiff, Sheila Mikes, a portion of the settlement proceeds paid to her husband in satisfaction of his loss of consortium claim. Finding that the allowance of such a setoff was in error, we reverse.

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