Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 682.15 (2025)

Judgment or decree on award.

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682.15 Judgment or decree on award.
(1) Upon granting an order confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award, the court shall enter a judgment in conformity therewith. The judgment may be recorded, docketed, and enforced as any other judgment in a civil action.
(2) A court may allow reasonable costs of the motion and subsequent judicial proceedings.
(3) On motion of a prevailing party to a contested judicial proceeding under s. 682.12, s. 682.13, or s. 682.14, the court may add reasonable attorney fees and other reasonable expenses of litigation incurred in a judicial proceeding after the award is made to a judgment confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award.
History.s. 14, ch. 57-402; s. 12, ch. 67-254; s. 26, ch. 2013-232.
Note.Former s. 57.24.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 28 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1973–2025 · leading case: Beach Resorts Intern. v. Clarmac Marine Const., 339 So. 2d 689 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976).
Beach Resorts Intern. v. Clarmac Marine Const., 339 So. 2d 689 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976). · cites it 6× “§ 682.15, Fla. Stat. 1975. [3] The trial court's final judgment imposing a lien in the specific amount of the arbitrator's award must be construed as a confirmation of the arbitrator's award.”
McDaniel v. Berhalter, 405 So. 2d 1027 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981). · cites it 5× “[4] Fla. Stat. § 682.15 : Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity therewith and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
United Servs. Auto. Ass'n v. Smith, 527 So. 2d 281 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988). · cites it 3× “Relying on another statute, section 682.15, Florida Statutes, [2] the Comeau court commented that a court may always tax costs against an insurance company in arbitration concerning UM coverage; accordingly, the insured was entitled to an award of fees and properly sought them…”
Sharpe v. Lytal & Reiter, Clark, Sharpe, 702 So. 2d 622 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997). · cites it 3× “[4] § 682.15 Fla. Stat. (1995) ("Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity therewith and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
Allstate Ins. Co. v. Langston, 358 So. 2d 1387 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978). · cites it 3× “We are impelled to conclude, as appellant contends, that the subsequent order and the judgment, each of which was entered on July 28, 1977, were not judgments in conformity to the award, and were not in conformity to said Section 682.15, Florida Statutes (1975). Moreover, the…”
Health Care Assocs., Inc. v. Brevard Physicians Grp., 701 So. 2d 118 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997). · cites it 4× “" § 682.15, Fla. Stat. (1995). Thus, an order confirming, modifying or vacating the award is merely interlocutory.”
Polley v. Gardner, 98 So. 3d 648 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012). · cites it 2× “Section 682.15, Florida Statutes (2011), provides: Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity therewith and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
Am. Indem. Co. v. Comeau, 419 So. 2d 670 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982). · cites it 2× “Section 682.15, Florida Statutes (1982), provides in part: Costs of the application [for arbitration] and of the proceedings subsequent thereto, and disbursements may be awarded by the court.”
Aztec Med. Servs., Inc. v. Burger, 792 So. 2d 617 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001). “We also point out that as a practical matter the arbitration process will offer the opportunity for judicial involvement in the partnership dissolution.”
City of Tallahassee v. Big Bend PBA, 703 So. 2d 1066 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). · cites it 2× “§ 682.15, Fla. Stat. (1995). Thus, if an order confirming a final arbitration award does not contain additional words of finality sufficient to show an end to judicial labor and reflect that it is a "judgment," it is not an appealable, final order.”
Metro. Dade Cnty. v. RESOURCES RECOVERY, 462 So. 2d 570 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985). · cites it 2× “In my judgment, the present controversy does not, as the majority thinks, concern the provisions of an agreement between the parties but rather the terms of an arbitration award resolving a previous contractual dispute, which was, in settling a challenge to the award,…”
Residences at Bath Club v. Bath Club Ent., LLC, 166 So. 3d 910 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015). · cites it 2× “Pursuant to section 682.15, Florida Statutes, the Arbitral Award was confirmed in a final judgment rendered by the trial court in May 2014.”
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