NEW FACE MD SURGERY CENTERS LLC v. VARGAS (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

NEW FACE MD SURGERY CENTERS LLC, Appellant, v. Gabriela VARGAS, Appellee.

No. 3D24-0743

Decided: July 23, 2025

Before FERNANDEZ, LINDSEY and GOODEN, JJ.

Lalchandani Simon PL, and Antonio J. Forte, Daniel E. Davis, and Kubs Lalchandani, for appellant. Daren Stabinski, P.A., and Daren Stabinski (Fort Lauderdale), for appellee.

Affirmed. Merkle v. Guardianship of Jacoby, 912 So. 2d 595, 600 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005) (“ ‘A case is “moot” when it presents no actual controversy or when the issues have ceased to exist.’ The settlement of a case renders it moot. The voluntary payment of a disputed charge has the same effect.” (citations omitted) (emphasis added)); Mills v. Robert W. Gottfried, Inc., 272 So. 2d 837, 838 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973) (“[B]oth the [arbitration] agreement and the Florida Arbitration Code contemplate the submission to arbitration of real Controversies—not questions simply of academic interest. When the motion to dismiss was filed in the present case, there was no controversy to submit to arbitration․ The trial judge, therefore, did not err in denying the defendants’ alternative motion for arbitration.”); Baron v. L.P. Evans Motors WPB, Inc., 333 So. 3d 1152, 1156 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022) (“[A]n arbitrator may now award fees, so long as the fee claim is authorized by contract or statute.”).

PER CURIAM.

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