Florida High Court: Law Requires Discovery Of Adverse Medical Incident Reports

Mealey's (October 27, 2017, 1:16 PM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An amendment to the Florida Constitution requires a hospital to produce external documents reviewing a surgical error incident, a Florida Supreme Court majority ruled Oct. 26 in a medical negligence suit, concluding that the statute favors the elimination of restrictions on patients’ discovery of adverse medical incident reports (Amber Edwards v. Larry D. Thomas, et al., No. SC15-1893, Fla. Sup., 2017 Fla. LEXIS 2136)....