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Florida Senate - 2006 SB 68
By Senator Bennett
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the North Broward Hospital
3 District; providing for the relief of Charles
4 Pandrea, husband of Janet Pandrea, deceased;
5 providing for an appropriation to compensate
6 him for the death of Janet Pandrea as a result
7 of the negligence of the North Broward Hospital
8 District; providing an effective date.
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10 WHEREAS, Janet Pandrea died on April 2, 2002, in
11 Broward County as a result of the treatment that she received
12 for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a disease which she did not have,
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14 WHEREAS, the Coral Springs Medical Center, part of the
15 North Broward Hospital District, by and through its
16 pathologist, Peter Tsivis, M.D., breached the applicable
17 standard of care by and through his diagnosis and
18 interpretation of certain slides as being consistent with
19 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, when the tissue at issue was a benign
20 thymoma, and
21 WHEREAS, based upon the misdiagnosis of the benign
22 thymoma as cancer, Janet Pandrea was subsequently treated with
23 multiple rounds of chemotherapy for which she had adverse
24 reactions, which led to multiple complications and her
25 eventual demise, and
26 WHEREAS, Charles Pandrea was married to Janet Pandrea
27 on May 19, 1956, and they had four children together during
28 the course of their 46-year marriage, and
29 WHEREAS, Charles Pandrea is suffering from the tragic
30 memories of the suffering of his wife from complications from
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1 chemotherapy and her prolonged hospital stay and eventual
2 demise, which were related to the initial misdiagnosis, and
3 WHEREAS, Charles Pandrea will continue to suffer mental
4 pain and anguish for the remainder of his life, which has
5 caused and will continue to cause serious psychological
6 problems for him, and
7 WHEREAS, as a matter of law, a jury in Broward County
8 returned a verdict against North Broward Hospital District on
9 June 8, 2005, and the verdict was reduced to a final judgment
10 in the amount of $808,554.78 on June 15, 2005, and
11 WHEREAS, as a matter of law, it was determined that
12 neither Charles Pandrea nor Janet Pandrea did anything to
13 cause or contribute to the cause of the losses and injuries
14 complained of, and
15 WHEREAS, the North Broward Hospital District, pursuant
16 to section 768.28, Florida Statutes, has offered to pay
17 $200,000, the statutory limit for the waiver of sovereign
18 immunity, and
19 WHEREAS, the North Broward Hospital District is
20 responsible for paying the remainder of the judgment, which is
21 $608,554.78, NOW, THEREFORE,
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23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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25 Section 1. The facts stated in the preamble to this
26 act are found and declared to be true.
27 Section 2. The North Broward Hospital District is
28 authorized and directed to appropriate from funds of the
29 district not otherwise appropriated and to draw a warrant in
30 the sum of $608,554.78, payable to Charles Pandrea, husband of
31 Janet Pandrea, deceased, as compensation for the death of
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1 Janet Pandrea as a result of the negligence of the North
2 Broward Hospital District.
3 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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