GEORGIANNA THORNE, ETC., APPELLANTS,

v.

DR. ANTONIO RAMIREZ ET AL., APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Carney v. Gambel, 751 So. 2d 653 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)
  …592 N.Y.S.2d 512 (1993). No Florida decision has imposed liability upon the parents of an adult child for intentional acts simply because the child may be financially dependent on, or needs to reside with, his or her parents. Cf. Thorne v. Ramirez, 346 So. 2d 121, 122 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)(absent allegations that adult child was insane or mentally deficient, a complaint that sought to hold the parents of the child hable for an intentional tort was properly dismissed). We need not speculate on circumstances unde…
• Knight v. Merhige, 133 So. 3d 1140 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014)
  …de with, his or her parents.” Carney, 751 So. 2d at 654. Appellant Sitton posits that Carney left open the possibility “that parents of an emancipated adult could be held responsible for an adult child’s actions” when it cited to Thorne v. Ramirez, 346 So. 2d 121, 122 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977), as holding that “absent allegations that [the] adult child was insane or mentally deficient, a complaint that sought to hold the parents of the child liable for an intentional tort was properly dismissed.” Id. (emphasis adde…
• Thibeault v. Seifert, 388 So. 2d 224 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980)
  …at appellants were somehow vicariously responsible for the torts of their son. In no event could that burden be discharged by merely showing the parent-child relationship, and particularly not where, as here, the son was an adult. Thorne v. Ramirez, 346 So. 2d 121 (Fla.3d DCA 1977); Bullock v. Armstrong, 180 So. 2d 479 (Fla.2d DCA 1965). Yet the record reveals no other basis for holding appellants liable for the misconduct of their son and his wife. Of a certainty, the naked fact that appellants own the premi…

Authorities Cited

• Hanley v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 334 So. 2d 11 (Fla. 1976)
• Maude D. Bullock v. Armstrong, 180 So. 2d 479 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965)