SIEGEL v. HUSAK

No. 3D04-2310.

943 So.2d 209 (2006)

Doreen SIEGEL, A.R.N.P. and Ace American Ins. Co., Appellants, v. John S. HUSAK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greenberg Traurig and Arthur J. England, Jr., Elliot B. Kula and Daniel M. Samson; Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial and Todd R. Ehrenreich and Lawrence E. Burkhalter, Miami, for appellants.

Deutsch & Blumberg and James C. Blecke; Charles B. Patrick, Miami, for appellee.

Before GERSTEN, SHEPHERD, and SUAREZ, JJ.


SHEPHERD, J.

This is an appeal by an advanced registered nurse practitioner and her insurer from an adverse jury verdict. The question presented is whether the nurse practitioner is individually responsible at law for a misdiagnosis, which was the ultimate responsibility of her supervising physician. Although there are circumstances in which a nurse practitioner can be found liable for the misdiagnosis of her supervising physician, we find there is a lack of competent...

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