Southern Baptist Hosp. of Florida v. Ashe
Decision Date | 08 February 2007 |
Docket Number | No. 1D06-3202.,1D06-3202. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Parties | SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF FLORIDA, INC., Petitioner, v. Ronald E. ASHE, as personal representative for the Estate of Dara Leigh Ashe, Respondent. |
Harvey L. Jay, III, and Travase L. Erickson of Saalfield, Shad, Jay, Lucas & Stokes, P.A., Jacksonville, for Petitioner.
Kenneth B. Wright of Bledsoe, Jacobson, Schmidt & Wright, Jacksonville, for Respondent.
By petition for writ of certiorari, Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida argues the trial judge departed from the essential requirements of law when he found respondent's cause of action did not sound in medical malpractice, but instead in ordinary negligence, thus eliminating the necessity that respondent comply with the presuit requirements of chapter 766. See § 766.106(2), Fla. Stat. (2003) ( ). "[Certiorari review] is appropriate when chapter 766 presuit requirements are at issue." Okaloosa County v. Custer, 697 So.2d 1297, 1297 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). As the trial court did not depart from the essential requirements of law, we deny certiorari.
A court must, on a case-by-case basis, look to the allegations made in the complaint when determining whether a suit raises an issue of ordinary negligence or medical malpractice. See Foshee v. Health Mgmt. Assocs., 675 So.2d 957, 959 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) ( ; see also J.B. v. Sacred Heart Hosp. of Pensacola, 635 So.2d 945, 949 (Fla.1994) ( ); Tenet St. Mary's Inc. v. Serratore, 869 So.2d 729, 731 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004) (); Garcia v. Psychiatric Insts. of Am., Inc., 693 So.2d 66, 66 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997) (); Broadway v. Bay Hosp., Inc., 638 So.2d 176, 177 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994) ().
In the present case, respondent does not challenge any medical diagnosis or decision that required professional skill or judgment. See Mobley v. Gilbert E. Hirschberg, P.A., 915 So.2d 217, 219 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005) ; see also Jackson v. Biscayne Med. Ctr., Inc., 347 So.2d 721, 722 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) (...
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