IN RE ESTATE OF BLANCHE BARTLETT, DECEASED. ROSE CORREALE, APPELLANT,

v.

AUREL PARMELEE, GLENNA FELDSTEAD AND DORIS FISHER, APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Goble v. Frohman, 901 So. 2d 830 (Fla. 2005)
  …d 276, 277 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986) (“At common law, a wrongdoer was liable for the total damages caused an injured party, regardless of whether the injured party received payment for some of the damages from collateral sources.”); Janes v. Baptist Hosp., 349 So. 2d 672, 673 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) (“Florida follows the collateral source rule which stands for the proposition that total or partial compensation received by the injured party from a collateral source wholly independent of the wrongdoer will not operate to l…
• Stanley v. United States Fid. & Guar. Co., 425 So. 2d 608 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982)
  …his Court said in Walker v. Hilliard:8 If there must be a windfall, it is more just that the injured party profit, rather than the wrongdoer be relieved of full responsibility from his wrongdoing. See also Janes v. Baptist Hospital of Miami, Inc., 349 So. 2d 672, 673 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977), cert, den., 355 So. 2d 512 (Fla.1978); Restatement (Second) of Torts, § 920A; Fleming, The Collateral Source Rule and Loss Allocation in Tort Law, 54 Calif.L.Rev. 1478, 1483 (1966).9 In this case two additional factors stre…

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• Polly Weaver v. Wilson, 532 So. 2d 67 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988)
  …tal or partial compensation received by an injured party from a collateral source wholly independent of the wrongdoer does not operate to reduce the damages recoverable from the person who caused the injury. Janes v. Baptist Hospital of Miami, Inc., 349 So. 2d 672, 673 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977). In Florida Physician’s Insurance Reciprocal v. Stanley, 452 So. 2d 514 (Fla.1984), the Supreme Court created a limitation to the common-law collateral source rule. Stanley involved a case where an infant was bom mentally ret…

Authorities Cited

• Kuebler v. Kuebler, 131 So. 2d 211 (Fla. 2d DCA 1961)