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.