LARKIN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL PALM SPRINGS CAMPUS, LLC v. LILIANA PEREZ DE GRACIA, etc.

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed September 6, 2023.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D22-1698

Lower Tribunal No. 21-3821MA

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Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus, LLC, Appellant,

vs.

Liliana Perez de Gracia, etc., Appellee.

An Appeal from the State of Florida, Division of Administrative Hearings.

Wicker Smith O’Hara McCoy & Ford, P.A., and Michael R. D’Lugo (Orlando), for appellant.

Ratzan, Weissman & Boldt, Kimberly L. Boldt and Brooke M. Mesner (Boca Raton); Freidin Brown, P.A., Philip Freidin and Jonathan E. Freidin, for appellee.

Before LINDSEY, GORDO and LOBREE, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Marr v. Webb, 930 So. 2d 734, 737 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006)

(“[O]ur review of the arbitrators’ decision to grant a certain award ‘is very limited, with a high degree of conclusiveness attaching to an arbitration award.’” (quoting Charbonneau v. Morse Operations, Inc., 727 So. 2d 1017, 1019 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999))); Deno v. Lifemark Hosp. of Florida, Inc., 45 So. 3d 959, 960–61 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010) (“The arbitration panel’s ruling is consistent with the text of the statute and the statutory scheme.”); Lithgow v. Hamilton, 69 So. 2d 776, 778 (Fla. 1954) (“The pecuniary value of services which the husband might reasonably expect to have received from the deceased wife if she had not been killed . . . includes . . . any special service which the wife was accustomed to perform for the husband . . . and in his business without compensation, which will have to be replaced by hired services.”).