Rebecca Creed has been ranked among the Top 100 Florida Super Lawyers List since 2006. This year Rebecca has been further ranked as Top 50 Women Florida Super Lawyers.
Creed & Gowdy is proud of her continued peer and professional recognition.
The Florida Justice Association Annual Convention kicks off in Palm Beach, Florida later this month. On Wednesday, June 12th Rebecca Creed will speak at the Mini Deposition College session. She will discuss a variety of topics from Rules of Engagement to Deposition Do's and Don'ts. For more information about her presentation and the convention, please visit the FJA website here.
In 2016, Creed & Gowdy filed a notice of appeal on behalf of their client, Guillermo Tabraue, III, Esq., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Suyma Torres in the Third District Court of Appeal, after the trial court dismissed the Estate's complaint with prejudice. During the course of briefing, Bryan Gowdy argued that a hospital has a nondelegable, implied contractual duty to provide emergency care to a patient. In March, the Court issued it's opinion, affirming the trial court's ruling. Mr. Gowdy, along with the Estate's trial counsel, Jorge Silva, are now taking the case to the Florida Supreme Court, having filed a jurisdictional brief on May 17, arguing that the Third District certified a direct conflict between its decision below and three decisions of the Fourth District. See Art. V, ยง3(b)(4), Fla. Const; (certifying conflict with Newbold-Ferguson v. Amisub (N. Ridge Hosp.), Inc., 85 So. 3d 502 (Fla 4th DCA 2012); Wax v. Tenet Health Sys. Hosps., Inc., 955 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007); and Irving v. Doctors Hosp. of Lake Worth, Inc., 415 So. 2d 55 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982)).
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In October 2018, in a 2-1 decision, of-counsel, Thomas Burns, convinced the Second District Court of Appeal to reinstate a medical malpractice claim in its entirety. In November 2018, the appellee moved for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc. Mr. Burns, on behalf of the appellant, opposed. After five months, the Court issued its order denying rehearing.
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News Coverage:
Law360 - Med Mal Suit Revived After Atty's 'Excusable Neglect'
Creed & Gowdy, P.A., represented the parents of a child injured in a carnival ride called the "Psycho Swing" in a certiorari proceeding challenging the parents' right to seek punitive damages for their daughter's injuries. Daniel Mahfood first implemented a plan to have the trial court remedy potential procedural defects in the order granting leave to seek punitive damages. Then, in the certiorari proceeding, Mr. Mahfood argued that the appellate court lacked jurisdiction to consider the defendant's remaining challenges and that the defendant's arguments were substantively meritless as well. The appellate court agreed and issued a sweeping denial. The appellate court held that the Defendant's arguments were jurisdictionally barred and that the parents had sufficiently alleged punitive conduct even as to a corporate entity, freeing the parents to pursue punitive damages against all of the defendants in the lawsuit.
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