The Florida Supreme Court sided with patients Thursday in two medical malpractice cases, with the chief justice being the lone dissenter both times.
In one case, Tristan Bennett suffered brain damage a week after birth at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Jacksonville in 2001. Florida created the Neurological Injury Compensation Plan in 1988 to provide a no-fault system for birth-related brain damage cases due to the high cost of medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians.
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