Noel ex rel. Noel v. Broward General Medical Center

This is an appeal from a cost judgment entered in favor of the defendant doctors after they were granted final summary judgment in appellant’s medical malpractice claim. Appellants previously appealed the order granting summary judgment, and the supreme court decided that the doctors were entitled to sovereign immunity. See Stoll v. Noel, 694 So.2d 701 (Fla.1997). The appellants now claim on appeal that the trial court abused its discretion in taxing the physicians’ costs for expert discovery as to the malpractice issue because the discovery was not necessary, nor was it used to obtain the…