Eileen Hernandez, M.D. v. Lualhati Crespo

Because I adhere to my dissenting view in Franks v. Bowers, 116 So.3d 1240 (Fla. 2013), I would quash the decision on review and approve the result reached by *29the Second District in Santiago v. Baker, 135 So.3d 569 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014), on the conflict issue.

As I explained in Bowers:

Nothing in the [Medical Malpractice Act] can be read to support the conclusion that the purpose of the statute is thwarted by voluntary pre-dispute agreements ... designed to limit the cost of litigation and the amount of paid claims. Instead, such voluntary agreements are designed to cure the same mischief that the…