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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Claire Marie FIELDING, Appellant, v. Walter A. CERRATO, M.D., et al., Appellees.
    No. 91-608.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    May 29, 1992.
    Brett Rivkind of Rivkind & Pedraza, P.A., and Law Offices of Mitchell Lipcon and Charles Lipcon, Miami, for appellant.
    Thomas L. Schieffelin of Adams, Hill, Reis, Adams & Hall, Orlando, for appellee North Brevard County Hosp. Dist. d/b/a Jess Parrish Memorial Hosp.
    Robert D. Henry and Karen M. Connell of Maguire, Voorhis & Wells, P.A., Orlando, for appellee James Nichols, M.D.
    J. Scott Murphy and Harry K. Anderson of Parker, Johnson, Anderson, McGuire & Michaud, P.A., Orlando, for appellee Walter A. Cerrato, M.D.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

DAUKSCH and COWART, JJ., concur.

GRIFFIN, J., concurs and concurs specially with opinion.

GRIFFIN, Judge,-

concurring specially.

I agree that the final judgment based on the jury verdict in this case should be affirmed. I write only to express my disagreement with the lower court’s ruling that the amount of compensation paid to an expert witness to testify in a medical malpractice case, or any case for that matter, is “irrelevant”. See, e.g., Langston v. King, 410 So.2d 179 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982).