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2025 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 766
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND RELATED MATTERS Entire Chapter
    
    MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND RELATED MATTERS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 766
                MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND RELATED MATTERS
            
                        766.101
                        
                    Medical review committee, immunity from liability.
                    
                        766.1015
                        
                    Civil immunity for members of or consultants to certain boards, committees, or other entities.
                    
                        766.1016
                        
                    Patient safety data privilege.
                    
                        766.102
                        
                    Medical negligence; standards of recovery; expert witness.
                    
                        766.103
                        
                    Florida Medical Consent Law.
                    
                        766.104
                        
                    Medical negligence cases; reasonable investigation required before filing.
                    
                        766.106
                        
                    Notice before filing action for medical negligence; presuit screening period; offers for admission of liability and for arbitration; informal discovery; review.
                    
                        766.1065
                        
                    Authorization for release of protected health information.
                    
                        766.108
                        
                    Mandatory mediation and mandatory settlement conference in medical negligence actions.
                    
                        766.110
                        
                    Liability of health care facilities.
                    
                        766.111
                        
                    Engaging in unnecessary diagnostic testing; penalties.
                    
                        766.1115
                        
                    Health care providers; creation of agency relationship with governmental contractors.
                    
                        766.1116
                        
                    Health care practitioner; waiver of license renewal fees and continuing education requirements.
                    
                        766.112
                        
                    Comparative fault.
                    
                        766.113
                        
                    Settlement agreements; prohibition on restricting disclosure to Division of Medical Quality Assurance.
                    
                        766.118
                        
                    Determination of noneconomic damages.
                    
                        766.1185
                        
                    Bad faith actions.
                    
                        766.201
                        
                    Legislative findings and intent.
                    
                        766.202
                        
                    Definitions; ss. 766.201-766.212.
                    
                        766.2021
                        
                    Limitation on damages against insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, health maintenance organizations, or prepaid health clinics.
                    
                        766.203
                        
                    Presuit investigation of medical negligence claims and defenses by prospective parties.
                    
                        766.204
                        
                    Availability of medical records for presuit investigation of medical negligence claims and defenses; penalty.
                    
                        766.205
                        
                    Presuit discovery of medical negligence claims and defenses.
                    
                        766.206
                        
                    Presuit investigation of medical negligence claims and defenses by court.
                    
                        766.207
                        
                    Voluntary binding arbitration of medical negligence claims.
                    
                        766.208
                        
                    Arbitration to allocate responsibility among multiple defendants.
                    
                        766.209
                        
                    Effects of failure to offer or accept voluntary binding arbitration.
                    
                        766.21
                        
                    Misarbitration.
                    
                        766.211
                        
                    Payment of arbitration award; interest.
                    
                        766.212
                        
                    Appeal of arbitration awards and allocations of financial responsibility.
                    
                        766.301
                        
                    Legislative findings and intent.
                    
                        766.302
                        
                    Definitions; ss. 766.301-766.316.
                    
                        766.303
                        
                    Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; exclusiveness of remedy.
                    
                        766.304
                        
                    Administrative law judge to determine claims.
                    
                        766.305
                        
                    Filing of claims and responses; medical disciplinary review.
                    
                        766.306
                        
                    Tolling of statute of limitations.
                    
                        766.307
                        
                    Hearing; parties; discovery.
                    
                        766.309
                        
                    Determination of claims; presumption; findings of administrative law judge binding on participants.
                    
                        766.31
                        
                    Administrative law judge awards for birth-related neurological injuries; notice of award.
                    
                        766.311
                        
                    Conclusiveness of determination or award; appeal.
                    
                        766.312
                        
                    Enforcement of awards.
                    
                        766.313
                        
                    Limitation on claim.
                    
                        766.314
                        
                    Assessments; plan of operation.
                    
                        766.3145
                        
                    Code of ethics.
                    
                        766.315
                        
                    Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; board of directors; notice of meetings; report.
                    
                        766.316
                        
                    Notice to obstetrical patients of participation in the plan.
                    
                        766.318
                        
            Civil liability for provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures to minors.