Opinion
No. 4D99-2920.
Opinion filed May 17, 2000.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Leroy H. Moe, Judge; L.T. No. 99-002586 (13).
J. Scott Dunn of Sabghir Associates, P.A., Tamarac, for appellant.
Brent F. Bradley of Vernis Bowling of Northwest Florida, P.A., Pensacola, for appellee Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Appellant's complaint joining successive tortfeasors in a single action and alleging that she was unable to apportion her injuries between them stated a cause of action and was not defective for "improper joinder." See Lawrence v. Hethcox, 283 So.2d 41 (Fla. 1973) (holding that separate trials for successive tortfeasors causing unapportionable damages would "enhance the difficulties of proof and tend to obstruct, rather than to promote, justice" and that it is an abuse of discretion not to permit joinder of successive tortfeasors where apportionment of damages is alleged to be impossible).
REVERSED.
DELL and SHAHOOD, JJ., concur.