No. SB 1700
Filed under Healthcare.
Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death; Deleting a provision that precludes certain persons from recovering damages for medical negligence resulting in death, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDAdult children of a parent who died from medical negligence, and parents of an adult child who died from medical negligence, can now recover wrongful-death damages -- a right medical-negligence claims alone had been denied.
That recovery is still subject to whatever other conditions the wrongful-death statute already imposes, such as the rule letting a parent of a deceased adult child recover only if no other survivors exist.
Nursing home and assisted living facility resident's-rights claims were already exempt from the repealed bar and are unaffected either way; the bill just drops a now-meaningless cross-reference to the provision it repeals.
AIAdult children are no longer barred from recovering the wrongful-death damages available under subsection (3) when their parent's death is caused by medical negligence.
AIParents of an adult child are no longer barred from recovering the wrongful-death damages available under subsection (4) when their adult child's death is caused by medical negligence, as defined by Florida's malpractice presuit statute.