MANORCARE HEALTH SERVICES, INC. v. GIPSON

No. 4D13-605.

120 So.3d 101 (2013)

MANORCARE HEALTH SERVICES, INC. d/b/a Manor Care West Palm Beach, Manor Care, Inc. f/k/a HCR Manor Care, Inc. f/k/a Healthcare And Retirement Corporation, Manor Care Of America, Inc. f/k/a HCRC, Inc., and Healthcare and Retirement Corporation of America, Petitioners, v. Jacqueline D. GIPSON and James D. Gipson, as co-personal Representatives of the Estate of Lucy Pearl Gipson, deceased, for and on behalf of her survivors, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

August 7, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn L. Smith and Scott A. Cole of Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

Alexander M. Clem of Morgan & Morgan, P.A., Orlando, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioners seek a writ of prohibition to review the denial of their motion to disqualify the trial judge. We grant the petition, because after voluntarily disclosing her relationship with the Manor Care facility during a pretrial hearing, the trial judge invited the parties to file a motion to disqualify and suggested that such a motion would be granted, if filed. See State v. Borrego, 105 So.3d 616, 620 (Fla...

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