Woodson v. Go
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the CourtEvander, J.
Appellant, Paul Woodson, appeals from a final judgment entered, pursuant to a jury verdict, in favor of medical malpractice defendants Dr. Darlene Go, Dr. Louis Scala, and Florida Cardiology, P.A. (Ap-pellees). We affirm. In doing so, we recede from Lake v. Clark, 583 So.2d 797 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988), to the extent it holds that with only very broad limits, all qualified expert opinion testimony in a medical malpractice case is to be permitted, even if it is cumulative to other evidence.
The underlying lawsuit stems from an occlusion of Appellant’s femoral artery following a cardiac…
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