[DOWNLOAD] "St. Marys Hospital, Inc. v. Phillipe" by Supreme Court of Illinois ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: St. Marys Hospital, Inc. v. Phillipe
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 29, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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We have before us St. Marys Hospital, Inc. v. Phillipe, 699 So. 2d 1017 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), and Franzen v. Mogler, 699 So. 2d 1026 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), which we have consolidated for review. These are medical malpractice wrongful death cases in which the defendants conceded liability. The parties voluntarily chose to use a statutorily created binding arbitration process as an alternative to litigation to provide a faster, more efficient, and less costly means of resolving the issue of damages. Under this process, the parties waived the right to a jury trial and agreed to have the damages restricted in accordance with the statutory process. Following arbitration, the plaintiffs in these cases were awarded various amounts of both economic and non-economic damages.