DESTEFANO v. ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM

No. 5D06-75.

973 So.2d 492 (2007)

Lawrence M. DESTEFANO, Appellant/Cross-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM SUNBELT, etc., et al., Appellee/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied February 8, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas A. Shannin, Gotha for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Larry J. Townsend and David L. Evans of Mateer & Harbert, P.A., Orlando, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant Orlando Regional HealthCare System, Inc.

George N. Meros, Jr., and Allen C. Winsor of Gray Robinson, P.A., Tallahassee, Monterey Campbell of Gray Robinson, P.A., Lakeland and Tracy A. Marshall and Dyana L. Petro, of Gray Robinson, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Adventist Health System Sunbelt.


PALMER, C.J.

Lawrence Destefano appeals the final order entered by the trial court awarding him $500,000 in compensatory damages and $1,000,000 in punitive damages against Rollins Bedford Corporation d/b/a Sunbelt Healthcare and Subacute Center (Rollins). Destefano contends that the compensatory damage award was improperly reduced and that the other defendants were improperly dismissed from the lawsuit. Determining that...

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