STANLEY MORGAN, PETITIONER,

v.

JACK SANDSTROM, AS DIRECTOR, DADE COUNTY CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION DEPARTMENT, RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By

• Marks v. Delcastillo, 386 So. 2d 1259 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980)
  …ction 768.-21(6)(a), Florida Statutes (1977), however, such losses are recoverable only when, as was not true in this case in which the boys were survived by their parents, the decedent leaves a spouse or lineal descendants. Bassett v. Merlin, Inc., 335 So. 2d 273 (Fla.1976); see White v. Clayton, 323 So. 2d 573 (Fla.1975). These aspects of the final judgment are thus totally unsupported by the applicable law. The appellee agrees that this is true. He argues, however, that the issue was not properly preserve…
• Vildibill v. Johnson, 492 So. 2d 1047 (Fla. 1986)
  …rson v. Insurance Company of North America, 347 So. 2d 690 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977) (adult non-dependent children of decedent may not recover loss of net accumulations through the estate); Bassett v. Merlin Inc., 304 So. 2d 543 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974), aff'd, 335 So. 2d 273 (Fla.1976) (parents of adult decedent may not recover loss of net accumulations through estate). Along with reading the amendment to discern the general intent of the legislature to broaden those situations in which an estate may recover prospectiv…
• Faulkner v. Allstate Ins. Co. & Robert J. Leary, 333 So. 2d 488 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976)
  …usly, if not directly, benefiting to a legally sufficient degree the noninjured spouse) and those able to join a claim for loss of consortium in a tort action by an injured spouse who has passed the threshold. Cf. Bassett v. Merlin, Inc., Fla. 1976, 335 So. 2d 273; White v. Clayton, Fla. 1975, 323 So. 2d 573; Martin v. United Security Services, Inc., Fla. 1975, 314 So. 2d 765. With respect to the “access to the courts” argument, it falls for somewhat the same reasons. In the case of a husband seeking loss of…