Duffell v. South Walton Emergency Services, Inc.

In this personal injury action, Duffell appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict absolving appellees from any liability. She raises numerous points on appeal, two of which in my judgment require reversal and a remand of the case for new trial.

Appellant was injured when an ambulance, which she occupied in her capacity as an emergency medical technician and was not driving, swerved off a wet road while on an emergency mission and turned over. As a result of the accident she sustained a compression fracture of the T-9 vertebra, causing, according to a treating orthopedist, a…