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

Matilda MINDLIN, Appellant, v. Wilmer STANLEY and George Hernando Hernandez, Appellees.
    No. 87-111.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Nov. 10, 1987.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 14, 1987.
    Alexander L. Martone, Miami, for appellant.
    Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming and Paul R. Regensdorf, Fort Lauderdale, Kimbrell & Hamann and John W. Wylie and J. Steven Hudson, Miami, for appellees.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed.

HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ., concur.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge

(dissenting).

The plaintiff, Mrs. Mindlin, an 84-year-old lady, was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street. She sustained, among many other injuries, multiple rib fractures, a broken pelvis, and a knee fracture resulting in a 25% permanent disability. She spent 28 days in the hospital. I believe that the jury award of some $20,000 (a $25,000 total verdict of which approximately $5,000 represented unpaid medical expenses) for the pain and suffering and inability to lead a normal life caused by these injuries is shockingly inadequate. I would therefore grant the appellant a new trial on the issue of damages.