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House Bill 0025




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                  HB 25

        By Representative Brennan






  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10  Statutes, is repealed.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, 1997.

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14                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

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

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