Ted Babbitt,
a past president of the Palm Beach County Bar Association,
has been writing articles for the Bulletin for
over 17 years. Some of the articles that he has written
are below and are all in .pdf format.
April
1999 - Setoff of Personal Injury Protection Benefits May 1999 -
Comparative Negligence in Medical Malpractice Cases
& the Generic Listing of Witnesses June 1999
- Collateral Estoppel July/Aug
1999 - Discovery of Financial Information Regarding
Experts Revisited October 1999
- Sandbagging November 1999
- Spoliation of an Employer December 1999
- Subsequent Tortfeasors and Fabre January
2000 - Death of a Party February 2000
- Fabre and Subsequent Treating Physicians March 2000
- Voir Dire Racial Bias April 2000
- Fabre and the Phantom Defendant May 2000
- Plaintiff's Attorney's Right to be Present at Physical
Examination June 2000
- Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Exclusion Held
Constitutional September 2000
- Attorney's Fees in Wrongful Death Cases October 2000
- Objection During Final Argument, The Final Word November 2000
- Liability of Initial Tortfeasor for Subsequent Injury
December 2000
- An Offer of Judgment Requires Strict Construction January 2001
- Testimony of a Psychologist on Causation February 2001
- Intentional Misconduct, An Exception to the Worker's
Compensation Defense March 2001
- Court Awarded Attorney's Fees in Multi-Party Action April 2001
- Procedural 1983 Due Process Claims May 2001 -
Application of Stuart v. Hertz in Malpractice Cases June 2001
- Court's Duty to Review Reliability of Scientific
Evidence July/Aug 2001
- Punitive Damages of a Corporation September 2001
- Liability of Landowner for Obstructions to Vision October
2001 - Record Activity and Good Cause on a Motion
to Dismiss for Failure to Prosecute November 2001
- No Setoff Where Third Party Defendant is not Found
Liable December 2001
- Rear End Collisions and Sudden Stops January 2002
- Slip and Falls Come of Age February 2002
- Cause of Initial Incident Inadmissable March 2002
- The Impact Rule and Ingestion of Foreign Substances April 2002
- Liability for Service of Alcoholic Beverages May 2002 -
What is the Court's Authority to Assess Attorneys'
Fees Against a Lawyer? June 2002
- Limitation Placed on Recovery of ERISA Lien July/August 2002
- Juror NonDisclosure September
2002 - Offer of Judgment Attorney's Fees October 2002
- A Primer on Frye November 2002
- Backstriking the Jury December 2002
- Personnel Records in Nursing Home Cases January 2003
- Are Impeachment Depositions Subject to Discovery? February 2003
- When Does A Wrongful Death Action Survive? March 2003
- Evidentiary Issues in Malpractice April 2003
- The Lack of Prosecution "Got Ya" Rule
Marches on May 2003 -
Gender Neutral Jury Selection June 2003
- ERISA Preemption July/August
2003 - Hearsay September 2003
- Negligent Spoilation October 2003
- Offers of Judgment November 2003
- Unfair Trade Practices December 2003
- Offer of Judgment - Contingency Risk Multiplier January 2004
- Damages of Minor Child in Death of Parent February 2004
- Medicare Liens March 2004
- The Latest on NICA April 2004
- Shining the Light on Summary Judgment May 2004 -
Discovery of Opposing Counsel's Billing Records June 2004
- Subsequent Treater's Conduct July/August
2004 - Admissibility of Medical Bills September 2004
- Exclusion of Expert Witnesses "Sandbagging" October 2004
- Work Product Limitations November 2004
- Workers' Compensation Unrelated Works Exception
December 2004
- Declatory Judgments Janaury 2005
- Daubert & Frye: Where Does Florida Stand? February 2005
- Death of a Nursing Home Resident: What are the Rights? March 2005
- The Economic Loss Rule in Florida April 2005
- Bifurcation May 2005 -
Governmental Immunity Revisited June 2005 -
Discovery in Bad Faith Actions July/August
2005 - Work Product Discovery September 2005
- Set Off of HMO Discounted Bills October 2005
- Pleading the Punitive Damages November 2005
- The Wacky World of Offers of Judgment December 2005
- Juror Misconduct January 2006 -
Setting Cases for Trial February 2006
- Depositions of Senior Officers March 2006
- Failure to Prosecute - The Trap is Removed April 2006
- Racial Discrimination n the Exercise of Peremtory
Challenges May 2006 -
Discovery and Work Product June 2006
- Unrelated Works Exception Revisited July/August
2006 - Amendment 7 - Let the Sun Shine September 2006
- Pretrial Disclosure October 2006-
Witness Tampering November 2006-
Medicare and Medicaid Liens December 2006
- First Party Spoliation January 2007-
Common Law Bad Faith February 2007-
Limitation on Expert's Testimony March 2007-
Punitive Damages May 2007-
Hospital's Nondelegable Duty June 2007-
Juror Misconduct Revisited July/August 2007-
Substitution of a Party Upon Death September 2007-
A Suggested Form for Offers of Judgment October 2007-
Forum Non Conveniens November 2007-
Insured Physician Bad Faith Actions January 2008-
Erosion of the Impact Rule February 2008-
When Does Frye Apply? March 2008-
Latest on Liability for Obstructing Foliage April 2008-
Setting a Cause for Trial May 2008-
Federal Preemption June 2008-
Race Neutral Jury Selection July/August 2008-
Proposal for Settlement to Multiple Parties September 2008-
Proposed Complex Litigation Rule October 2008-
Relation Back November 2008-
The Latest on the Impact Rule December 2008-
Sanctions Due to Delay January 2009-
Patient's Right to Know February 2009-
Intentional Tort Exception to Workers' Compensation
Immunity March 2009-
An Impartial Jury April 2009-
Anti-Dumping Statute May 2009-
Undertaker's Doctrine June 2009-
Business Records Hearsay Exception July/August 2009-
Arbitration? Not So Fast September 2009
- Doctors Still Fighting Disclosure October 2009
- Summary Judgment in Vicarious Liability Cases November 2009
- Medical Malpractice Good Samaritan Act December 2009
- Use of Depositions of Employees