A South Florida woman whose undiagnosed breast cancer spread to her bones won reversal in a medical malpractice case against her radiologist after an appellate court found some defense claims shouldn’t have gone to trial.
The trial judge’s decision to let a statute-of-limitations question go to trial opened the doors for Dr. Jorge Sowers’ attorneys to “inadvertently cloud the issues” and mislead jurors about his former patient’s claims, a Third District Court of Appeal panel ruled 2-1 Wednesday.
