In Florida, the maximum amount of money a hospital has to pay the family of someone who died as a result of a doctor’s negligence is $1 million dollars. Now read this:
The Supreme Court will not overturn a Florida surgeon’s $5 million slander award after a hospital executive said he would not send his dog to the doctor for surgery.
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Sadow and the hospital had been fighting in court because the doctor was denied privileges to do surgery in Lawnwood’s open-heart institute. A Lawnwood official then told another doctor about Sadow: “I would not send my dog to him for surgery.”
In other words, the hospital would have saved $4 million dollars if they had let this guy operate and he ended up negligently killing someone.
Welcome to the wonderful world of tort “reform.”
