CopyCited 39 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2000 WL 854258
...on award under the provisions of section
766.212(2) on the grounds that the failure to grant a stay would result in a manifest injustice. The Medical Malpractice Act establishes a scheme for the payment of an arbitration award. To that end, sections
766.211 and
766.212 provide as follows:
766.211....
...(2) No appeal shall operate to stay an arbitration award; nor shall any arbitration panel, arbitration panel member, or circuit court stay an arbitration award. The district court of appeal may order a stay to prevent manifest injustice, but no court shall abrogate the provisions of s. 766.211(2)....
...ed to carry out the terms of the arbitration award or allocation of financial responsibility. Such orders are enforceable by the contempt powers of the court; and execution will issue, upon the request of a party, for such judgments. As set forth in section 766.211(1), the defendant must pay the arbitration award to the claimant within twenty days of the final award of the arbitration panel. Under section 766.211(2), the award will accrue interest at a rate of eighteen percent beginning ninety days following the rendition of the award....
CopyCited 33 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1993 WL 152668
...percent of lost wages and earning capacity. The claimant's noneconomic damages [14] are "limited to a maximum of $250,000 per incident," and are "calculated on a percentage basis with respect to capacity to enjoy life." [15] §
766.207(7). Finally, section
766.211, Florida Statutes (Supp....
