Florida Statute 766.2021 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 766
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND RELATED MATTERS

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766.2021 Limitation on damages against insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, health maintenance organizations, or prepaid health clinics.—An entity licensed or certified under chapter 624, chapter 636, or chapter 641 shall not be liable for the medical negligence of a health care provider with whom the licensed or certified entity has entered into a contract in any amount greater than the amount of damages that may be imposed by law directly upon the health care provider, and any suits against such entity shall be subject to all provisions and requirements of evidence in this chapter and other requirements imposed by law in connection with suits against health care providers for medical negligence.

History.—s. 59, ch. 2003-416.

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Christopher Moncrief, as Pers. Rep. of the Est. of Melissa Marie Moncrief v. Charles Edward Kollmer, M.D., & New Smyrna Orthopedics, P.A. (Fla. 5th DCA 2024).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...However, this definition applies only to sections 766.201 through 766.212. And, critically, those statutes use the term “health care provider” only in relation to medical-malpractice tortfeasors, thus presupposing that the licensed individual has provided health care to the claimant. See, e.g., § 766.2021, Fla....