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DADE COUNTY v. AMERICAN HOSP. OF MIAMI, INC.

No. 66689.

502 So.2d 1230 (1987)

DADE COUNTY, Etc., et al., Petitioners, v. AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF MIAMI, INC., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade Co. Atty. and Robert L. Blake, Asst. Co. Atty., Miami, for petitioners.

Robert M. Ervin of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom and Kitchen, Tallahassee, and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for respondent.

James J. Kenny, Michael Nachwalter, Richard Alan Arnold and Paul M. Bunge of Kenny, Nachwalter & Seymour, P.A., Miami, for Federation of American Hospitals, Florida League of Hospitals, Inc. and Forty-Seven Florida Hospitals, amici curiae.

Alan G. Greer of Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh, P.A., Miami, Gibbs and Zei, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, and Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for North Broward Hosp. Dist., amicus curiae.

Jon W. Zeder and Jerold I. Budney of Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Miami, for City of Homestead, amicus curiae.

Susan F. Delegal, Gen. Counsel for Broward County, and Janet Lander, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Fort Lauderdale, for Broward County, amicus curiae.

OVERTON, Justice.

This is a petition to review Dade County v. American Hospital of Miami, Inc., 463 So.2d 232 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984), in which the district court held that Dade County has a legal and financial duty to provide post-emergency care to its indigent residents and affirmed a trial court's direction to Jackson Memorial Hospital to accept promptly from American Hospital indigent patients whose emergency medical condition...

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