ALFRED RHINER v. SECRETARY OF THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS LAWNWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AND HEART INSTITUTE TAKASHI KOYAMA (2024)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

ALFRED RHINER, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, LAWNWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AND HEART INSTITUTE, and TAKASHI KOYAMA, D.M.D., Appellees.

No. 4D2023-0070

Decided: August 28, 2024

Alfred Rhiner, pro se, Avon Park. Louis Reinstein of Kelley Kronenberg, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections. No brief filed for appellee Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute. No appearance for appellee Takashi Koyama.

Appellee Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute's June 29, 2024 motion to dismiss Appellant Alfred Rhiner's appeal with respect to Rhiner's complaint against Lawnwood is granted, and the above-styled appeal is dismissed in part as moot due to an executed settlement agreement. See St. Mary's Hosp., Inc. v. Bass By & Through Bass, 592 So. 2d 779, 780 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992); Merkle v. Guardianship of Jacoby, 912 So. 2d 595, 601 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005).

We affirm without discussion with respect to appellate challenges to dispositions favoring the other defendants.

Affirmed in part, dismissed in part.

Per Curiam.

Gross, Forst and Artau, JJ., concur.

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