LINN v. FOSSUM

No. 1D03-4152.

894 So.2d 974 (2004)

Beth LINN and Anthony Linn, Appellants, v. Basil D. FOSSUM, M.D. and Dennis M. Lewis, M.D., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied December 20, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Major B. Harding, Martin B. Sipple and Jennifer M. Heckman of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, for Appellants.

S. William Fuller, Jr., and William D. Horgan of Fuller, Johnson & Farrell, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellee Basil D. Fossum, M.D.

No appearance for Appellee Dennis M. Lewis, M.D.


PADOVANO, J.

The plaintiffs, Beth and Anthony Linn, appeal from a final judgment entered for the defendant, Dr. Basil Fossum, in a medical malpractice case. They contend that testimony given by the defendant's medical expert should not have been admitted in evidence, because it was based entirely on the hearsay statements of other doctors. We conclude that the opinion testimony at issue was based in part on the expert's own assessment of the medical condition in question...

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