LIFEMARK HOSP. OF FL., INC. v. HERNANDEZ

No. 3D99-2410.

748 So.2d 378 (2000)

LIFEMARK HOSPITALS OF FLORIDA, INC., d/b/a Palmetto General Hospital, Petitioner, v. Inez HERNANDEZ and Lenin Hernandez, her husband; Sumivol Vorasoran, M.D.; Florida Anesthesia Associates, P.A.; Laida Casanova, M.D.; Alvarez-Jacinto, Alvarez-Jacinto, & Casanova, M.D., P.A., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

January 19, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parenti, Falk, Waas, Hernandez & Cortina, P.A., and Gail Leverett Parenti, Coral Gables, for petitioner.

Sally Alyce Gross, Miami; Needle, Gallagher, Areces & Ellenberg, P.A., and Janice Gallagher, Miami; Kaplan & Freedman, P.A., and Joel Kaplan, Miami; George, Hartz, Lundeen, Flagg & Fulmer and Charles Hartz, Coral Gables, for respondents.

Before COPE, GREEN and FLETCHER, JJ.


COPE, J.

Lifemark Hospitals of Florida, Inc., doing business as Palmetto General Hospital, petitions for a writ of certiorari to quash an order prohibiting the deposition of a medical expert. We grant the petition.

The underlying lawsuit is a medical malpractice action brought by Inez Hernandez and Lenin Hernandez, asserting that as a result of medical malpractice during childbirth, Ms. Hernandez suffered brain damage and other injuries. The hospital is one...

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