WILFRED HENRY PETERING, AND HIS WIFE, FRANCES E. PETERING, APPELLANTS,

v.

J. B. OSTEEN, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Steiger v. Mass. Cas. Ins. Co., 273 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 3d DCA 1973)
  …fect of the evidence. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Shouse, 83 Fla. 156, 91 So. 90 (1922). The question must, however, track the evidence sufficiently to enable the trial court to allow it. Great American Insurance Company v. Cornwell, Fla.App.1966, 191 So. 2d 435, 439. “Where . the factual predicate submitted to the expert witness in the hypothetical question omits a fact which is so obviously necessary to the formation of an opinion that the trial judge may take note of the omission on the basis of his comm…
• Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Anglin, 306 So. 2d 147 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975)
  …policy, even though the bodily injury would not have resulted in the death of the insured, had he not had the dormant inactive diseased condition of his person. . . . ” Likewise, in Great American Insurance Company v. Cornwell, Fla.App. 1st, 1966, 191 So. 2d 435, a judgment against the insurance company was upheld where the insured had received non-lethal bodily injuries in an accident and died two weeks later. The insured had a history of coronary arteriosclerosis, and the immediate cause of death was acut…
• Santos Wrestling Enters., Inc. v. Perez, 367 So. 2d 685 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979)
  …cal question or independent review of the evidence without treating the patient. In our opinion, an expert may appropriately render such an opinion. Brevard County v. Apel, 246 So. 2d 134 (Fla. 4th DCA 1971); and Great American Ins. Co. v. Cornwell, 191 So. 2d 435 (Fla. 1st DCA 1966). In this case, the record shows that the hypothetical question which would have formed the basis of appellants’ expert witness’s opinion comported with the evidence and tracked the criteria for the basis of such an opinion. See,…