Legal Opinion
Lawnwood Medical Center Inc. v. Sadow
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided March 24, 2010No. 4D08-1968PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFarmer, J.
A surgeon with staff privileges sued a hospital for breach of contract, and later added a claim for slander per se, seeking compensatory damages for both claims, as well as punitive damages for the slander. He alleged that the hospital had breached its contract with its medical staff, the Medical Staff Bylaws, by invalidly giving another surgeon exclusive privileges for cardiovascular surgery. The exclusive grant barred him from such surgery even though he had been approved for it by the hospital’s credentialing committee and medical staff leadership. The slander claim involved statements…
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