WESTCHESTER GENERAL HOSP., INC. v. RAMOS

Nos. 3D99-2967, 3D99-2957.

754 So.2d 838 (2000)

WESTCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL, INC., a Florida corporation, and Preferred Medical Plan, Inc., a Florida corporation, Petitioners, v. Angel R. RAMOS and Celina R. Ramos, Individually and for and on Behalf of our son and next friend, Angel J. Ramos, Jr., a minor, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wicker, Smith, Tutan, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford and Oscar Cabanas, Miami; Lucie M. McAllister, Coral Gables; O'Connor & Meyers and David R. Cassetty; Stephens, Lynn, Klein & McNicholas and Philip D. Parrish, Miami, for petitioners.

David H. Zoberg, Miami, and Ariel E. Furst, Miami Beach, for respondents.

Before COPE and FLETCHER, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.


COPE, J.

Westchester General Hospital, Inc., and Preferred Medical Plan, Inc., have petitioned for a writ of certiorari, seeking to quash a discovery order. We deny the petition.

The plaintiffs in this medical malpractice case sued Preferred Medical Plan, Inc., their health maintenance organization (HMO), and Westchester General Hospital, Inc., contending that (among other things) the HMO and Hospital were vicariously liable for the acts of the treating physician...

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