Ellis v. Humana of Florida, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• construing Act liberally to hold that “a posthumous child is a ‘survivor’ of its father (or mother if the child survives the death of the mother) under the Florida Wrongful Death Act”
• child born six weeks after the death of parent may recover under wrongful death act
• “And while the [parent] had no direct obligation of child support before the birth of the child, this inchoate obligation created at fertilization springs forth into full life upon the birth of the newborn child.”
• “And while the [parent] had no direct obligation of child support before the birth of the child, this inchoate obligation created at fertilization springs forth into full life upon the birth of the newborn child.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).