Sections 768.16-768.26 may be cited as the “Florida Wrongful Death Act.”
Fla. Stat. § 768.16
Wrongful Death Act
Known as the Florida Wrongful Death Act
The act spans §§ 768.041 to 768.81 (79 sections).
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Penley v. Eslinger (2010)
Most recently applied in Howard v. Wilkinson (May 2019)
History.--s. 1, ch. 72-35; s. 105, ch. 2003-1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.