PUTNAM COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER v. FLORIDA BIRTH-RELATED NEUROLOGICAL INJURY COMPENSATION ASSOCIATION

No. 1D16-32.

204 So.3d 598 (2016)

PUTNAM COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER, Appellant, v. FLORIDA BIRTH-RELATED NEUROLOGICAL INJURY COMPENSATION ASSOCIATION, a/k/a Nica, and Jerra Myrick, individually and as natural parent of Jamyrah Debose, a minor, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Ferrainolo of Hall Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC, Tampa, for Appellant.

Stephen A. Ecenia and Tana D. Storey of Rutledge Ecenia, P.A., Tallahassee for Appellee Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; Joshua T. Frick of Hogan Frick, Orlando, for Appellee Jerra Myrick, individually and as natural parent of Jamyrah Debose, a minor.


This case involves Florida's Neurological Injury Compensation Act ("NICA"), which exists to provide benefits to eligible infants who sustain severe birth-related neurological injuries. Putnam Community Medical Center ("the hospital") challenges section 766.302(2) of NICA on state and federal equal protection grounds, arguing that it impermissibly...

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