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WINTER HAVEN HOSP., INC. v. LILES

No. 2D13-807.

148 So.3d 507 (2014)

WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. Brandy K. LILES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 8, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan W. Fox of Fox & Loquasto, P.A., Orlando; G. Bruce Hill and Thomas Schieffelin of Hill, Adams, Hall & Schieffelin, P.A., Winter Park; and Daniel A. Martinez and Inguna Varslavane-Callahan of Martinez Denbo, LLC, St. Petersburg, for Appellant.

Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami; and Weldon Earl Brennan of Brennan, Holden & Kavouklis, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.

MORRIS, Judge.

Winter Haven Hospital, Inc. (the Hospital), appeals a final judgment awarding Brandy Liles $500,000 in compensatory damages against the Hospital and $1,000,000 in punitive damages against the Hospital. We reverse the final judgment and remand for a new trial in accordance with this opinion.

I. Facts

Ms. Sutka, a forty-nine-year-old woman, was receiving treatment at the Hospital's emergency room on March 26, 2005, for shortness of breath...

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