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

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: September 6, 2023
• Docket: 22-1698
• Status: Published

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 ________________

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.”).