On this final day of Florida’s legislative session, a subsection of state statute that critics call our “free kill” law is still intact – despite renewed energy to repeal it this year. Lawmakers filed five bills this session to overturn the law, which limits who can sue over medical malpractice deaths. None of them passed. For Sabrina Davis, who regularly advocated for repeal in Tallahassee this year, it’s a disappointing outcome. “I feel like this legislative session has been the most eye-opening session that I've been a part of,” she said. “We had a chance. We had a chance this year to fully repeal subsection eight.” Her father Keith Davis, a Navy veteran, died in 2020 – five days after he showed up at a hospital with a swollen knee that wouldn’t bear weight. “The hospital refused to do an autopsy. And, after I paid for one privately, it confirmed that my dad died of a 9-inch-long blood clot,” Davis said. “100% preventable. He had every sign and symptom for the blood clot, but nothing was ever done to address it.” The Florida Department of Health found Keith Davis’ doctor committed medical malpractice by failing to assess and treat his elevated risk for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, which is a blood clot, often in the leg, that travels to the lungs. The Department made the doctor pay a $7,500 fine plus about $4,000 for the department’s investigation costs, take 13 hours of continuing education courses, and hire a risk manager to review his practice. The DOH also issued “a Letter of Concern” against the doctor’s license. “It was extremely degrading for me to hear that they put such a low punishment on something that changed my life forever,” Sabrina Davis said. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/investigations/10-investigates/florida-free-kill-medical-malpractice-deaths/67-5e374505-667a-4505-84a0-4890d4376d0f ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►X: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay