MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER v. GONZALEZ

No. 3D11-1357.

98 So.3d 1198 (2012)

MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., etc., Appellant, v. Rosalia GONZALEZ, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio GONZALEZ, deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Falk, Waas, Hernandez, Cortina, Solomon & Bonner and Norman M. Waas ; Greenberg Traurig and Elliot H. Scherker and Julissa Rodriguez , Miami, for appellant.

Peter P. Sotolongo ; Goldberg & Rosen and Judd Rosen ; Joel S. Perwin , Miami, for appellee.

Before WELLS, C.J., and FERNANDEZ, J., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Rosalia Gonzalez sued Mount Sinai hospital for the wrongful death of her husband, Antonio Gonzalez. She claimed that, as she and her husband descended steps at Mount Sinai's main bus stop, he fell and broke his hip, as a result of which he passed away a few weeks later. The jury returned a large verdict for the plaintiff, upon which judgment was entered after it was reduced by an uncontested remittitur. Because the plaintiff did not present...

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