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Gruber v. Mount Sinai Hospital

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Apr 15, 1986
487 So. 2d 76 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

Opinion

No. 85-2361.

April 15, 1986.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, Jon I. Gordon, J.

Stanley M. Rosenblatt and Julius Gonzalez and Laura S. Rotstein, Miami, for appellants.

Kelner Kelner, Miami, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


The final summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant David Edelman, M.D. in this medical malpractice action is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings. We reach this result because (a) the two expert witness affidavits filed in this cause by Dr. Edelman in support of his motion for summary judgment are extremely abbreviated, highly conclusory, and woefully inadequate to establish that Dr. Edelman was not guilty of negligence in the incident sued upon, (b) the depositions and other discovery on file, although more informative than the above affidavits, fail to establish Dr. Edelman's lack of negligence as a matter of law in the incident sued upon, and (c) the established law in Florida requires that the summary judgment herein be reversed as Dr. Edelman failed to satisfy his burden of proof below in order to be entitled to such a judgment. See Scanlon v. Litt, 191 So.2d 553 (Fla. 1966); Holl v. Talcott, 191 So.2d 40 (Fla. 1966); Williams v. Florida Realty Management Co., 272 So.2d 176 (Fla. 3d DCA 1973).

Reversed and remanded.


Summaries of

Gruber v. Mount Sinai Hospital

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Apr 15, 1986
487 So. 2d 76 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)
Case details for

Gruber v. Mount Sinai Hospital

Case Details

Full title:CHARLES GRUBER AND EVELYN GRUBER, HIS WIFE, APPELLANTS, v. MOUNT SINAI…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Apr 15, 1986

Citations

487 So. 2d 76 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

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