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Senate Bill 0144
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 144

    By Senators Brown-Waite and Grant





    10-209-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to wrongful death; repealing s.

  3         768.21(8), F.S., which prohibits the recovery

  4         of damages for wrongful death by specified

  5         persons; providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (8) of section 768.21, Florida

10  Statutes, is repealed.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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14                          SENATE SUMMARY

15    Repeals s. 768.21(8), F.S., which provides that in
      wrongful death actions, damages for lost parental
16    companionship, instruction, and guidance and for mental
      pain and suffering are not recoverable by adult children
17    and damages for mental pain and suffering are not
      recoverable by a parent of a deceased adult child with
18    respect to claims for medical malpractice as defined in
      s. 766.106(1), F.S.
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