Malpractice Insurance

Plantation Gen. Hosp. Ltd. P'ship v. Horowitz, No. 4D03-3873 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Feb. 9, 2005)

The District Court of Appeals of Florida held that a hospital could not be sued on an unsatisfied medical malpractice judgment that was rendered against a physician to whom it had granted medical staff privileges. The physician failed to comply with the Florida Physician Responsibility Law and failed to maintain medical malpractice insurance. The court held that the Physician Responsibility Law did not give rise to a private cause of action against the hospital based on the physician having staff privileges at the hospital. Accordingly, the court dismissed the patient's case.