Legal Question in Medical Malpractice in Florida

Re: hospital malpractice

Welcome to Florida -- home of the Republican legislature that protects doctors from the consequences of their negligence.

If the doctor is an employee of a governmental agency or the State, then you may not sue the doctor when he negligently injures a patient. You may sue the State, as his emplopyer, but the recovery is limited to $100,000 per person and and $200,000 per incident.

Unfortunately, thge legislature has created a scheme that makes it very expensive to bring a medical malpractice case. It is not unusual for the cost of a suit to be in the neighborhood of $75,000 or more.

Worse still, if your father in law was not married and had no children under 25 years of age and a doctor kills him by his negligence, then you can't sue at all -- whether the doctor is employed by the state or not. As the saying goes -- it is cheaper to kill them than cure them. Terrible, terrible law -- that the Republican party insists on keeping in place. A big consumer rip off.