COLUMBIA/JFK MEDICAL CTR. v. SANGOUNCHITTE

Nos. 4D07-1068, 4D04-2034.

977 So.2d 639 (2008)

COLUMBIA/JFK MEDICAL CENTER LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. Sam SANGOUNCHITTE and Matilda Sangounchitte, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 13, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer S. Carroll of the Law Offices of Jennifer S. Carroll, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens; Sylvia H. Walbolt and Stephanie Zimmerman of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa and Maureen E. Mahoney of Latham & Watkins, LLP, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Julie H. Littky-Rubin of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain & Williams, LLP, West Palm Beach, for appellees.


KLEIN, J.

Plaintiffs recovered a large verdict against the appellant hospital on the theory that the hospital negligently credentialed a neurosurgeon who should not have been allowed by the hospital to perform an operation that went terribly wrong. We reject the hospital's argument that there was insufficient evidence to support negligent credentialing, but reverse the award to Mrs. Sangounchitte for lost services as well as the award of attorney's fees.

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