Legal Opinion
Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinics, Inc. v. Estate of Lawson ex rel. Lawson
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided August 28, 2015No. 1D14-4675PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOsterhaus, J.
Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, Inc., d/b/a Shands Vista, an adult psychiatric hospital, seeks a writ of certiorari to quash an order denying .its motion to dismiss a negligence action. Shands asserts that the Estate of Ashley Lawson failed to comply with mandatory presuit requirements under chapter 766, Florida Statutes (2014), before bringing a medical negligence claim cloaked in allegations of ordinary negligence. We have certiorari jurisdiction and conclude that because the claim arises from the services and care Shands was giving to a patient in a locked psychiatric unit, the…
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