Research Library

Read subsection (8) in the context of every damage category and survivor definition.

Florida funnels wrongful-death claims through the decedent’s personal representative.

Current limitation, outside repose bar, and statutory treatment of concealment.

Definitions, notice, screening, informal discovery, and presuit procedures.

Florida’s guarantee that courts shall be open for redress of injury without sale, denial, or delay.

The access-to-courts framework: reasonable alternative or overpowering public necessity with no alternative method.

Addresses the merger of personal-injury and wrongful-death remedies when the injury causes death.

Upheld medical-malpractice repose under the 1975 crisis rationale and access-to-courts doctrine.

Upheld § 768.21(8) against an equal-protection challenge under rational-basis review.

Invalidated wrongful-death medical noneconomic-damage caps and examined whether the asserted crisis remained.

Extended the equal-protection analysis to personal-injury medical noneconomic-damage caps.

Applied binding Mizrahi precedent while certifying a changed-conditions constitutional question.

Official bill history, enrolled text, analyses, votes, and veto status.

Committee analyses and votes on the Senate repeal proposal that was laid on the table for HB 6017.

The Florida Channel archive of the May 29, 2025 press conference announcing the veto.

Official 2026 history of the clean-repeal bill after advancing through the House.

Official history of the identical Senate bill.