Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County v. Metellus

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

The defendants in a medical malpractice case appeal from an order granting a new trial after a defense verdict because a serving juror, in answer to a question on voir dire as to whether she had been involved in a “lawsuit,” failed to reveal that she had been in a divorce and was the subject of collection efforts by creditors against her. For two reasons, we reverse for entry of judgment in accordance with the verdict.

First, in the absence of any definition of “lawsuit” which would, as in Roberts v. Tejada, 814 So.2d 334 (Fla.2002), include such proceedings, there was…