MARGARET ROBERTS, AN INCAPACITATED ETC.
v.
GREGORY G. PAVLAT, M. D. HOSPITAL SPECIALISTS

Fla. 1st DCA | 2018-01-30
No. 16-2883
Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2018)

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Holding

The trial court properly dismissed the medical malpractice action where the plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence to establish the defendants' breach of the applicable standard of care.


Headnotes

[1] In a medical malpractice action, summary judgment is appropriate where the plaintiff fails to present competent expert evidence establishing proximate causation between t…

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Facts & Procedural History

Margaret Roberts, an incapacitated person, brought a medical malpractice action against Dr. Gregory G. Pavlat, Hospital Specialists, P.A., Dr. Benjami…

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Opinion of the Court

_____________________________ Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331.

_____________________________ Angelo M. Patacca, Jr., Matthew W. Sowell, and Wayne Hogan of Terrell Hogan Yegelwel, P.A., Jacksonville; John S. Mills and Andrew D. Manko of The Mills Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellants. Dinah Stein and Mark Hicks of Hicks, Porter, Ebenfeld & Stein, P.A., Miami, for Appellees Gregory G. Pavlat, M.D., and Hospital Specialists, P.A. William T. Jackson of Dennis, Jackson, Martin & Fontela, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellees Benjamin E. Moore, M.D., and Benjamin E. Moore, M.D., P.A.


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