CLAIRE MARIE FIELDING, APPELLANT,
v.
WALTER A. CERRATO, M.D., ET AL., APPELLEES

Fla. 5th DCA | 1992-05-29
No. 91-608
DAUKSCH and COWART, JJ., concur., GRIFFIN, J., concurs and concurs specially with opinion.
599 So. 2d 274 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1992) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

DAUKSCH and COWART, JJ., concur. GRIFFIN, J., concurs and concurs specially with opinion.

Concurrence
GRIFFIN, Judge,-

GRIFFIN, Judge,-

concurring specially.

I agree that the final judgment based on the jury verdict in this case should be affirmed. I write only to express my disagreement with the lower court’s ruling that the amount of compensation paid to an expert witness to testify in a medical malpractice case, or any case for that matter, is “irrelevant”. See, e.g., Langston v. King, 410 So. 2d 179 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982).


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