Webb v. Priest

FERGUSON, Judge.

Edgar Webb, appeals from final judgments entered in a medical malpractice action in favor of appellees, defendants below. A jury returned verdicts in favor of the defendant doctors Haimo, Priest, and Fernandez and in favor of South Florida Emergency Physicians, Inc. and the Florida Patients Compensation Fund. A directed verdict was granted in favor of Parkway General Hospital. We reverse.

On appeal Webb contends that his difficulties at trial were the result not of defense counsel’s frequency in pointing to an “empty chair” created when Webb settled with defendants Jackson…