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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.
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). “§ 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). “[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). “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). “[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). “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). “" § 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). “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). “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). “§ 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). “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). “Pursuant to section 682.15, Florida Statutes, the Arbitral Award was confirmed in a final judgment rendered by the trial court in May 2014.”
State Farm Florida Ins. v. Gonzalez, 76 So. 3d 34 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011). “See § 682.15, Fla. Stat. (2008) (“Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an [arbitration] award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity therewith and be enforced as any other judgment or decree.”
Newport Motel, Inc. v. Cobin Restaurant. Inc., 281 So. 2d 234 (Fla. 3d DCA 1973). “directs the entry of such an order, on application of a party, unless statutory grounds for rejecting or vacating the award are present. None such grounds (as set out in § 682.”
Mills v. Robert W. Gottfried, Inc., 272 So. 2d 837 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973). “, and to enter a judgment in accordance with Section 682.15, F.S. 1971, F.S.A. Contemporaneously therewith, the court may adjudicate the right of the plaintiff to a mechanic's lien for the purpose of enforcing such judgment as plaintiff may obtain.”
Nucci v. Storm Football Partners, 82 So. 3d 180 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012). “at 1328 ; see also § 682.15. Absent a basis to vacate, the trial, court must confirm.”
Tallahassee Mem. Reg. Med. v. Kinsey, 655 So. 2d 1191 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995). “In relevant part, section 682.15 states that, "[u]pon 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.”
Tallahassee Mem'l Reg'l Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Kinsey, 655 So. 2d 1191 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995). “In relevant part, section 682.15 states that, “[u]pon 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.”
Architectural Sheet Metal, Inc. v. RLI Ins. Co., 936 So. 2d 1181 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006). “Since a judgment entered following an arbitration award is “enforced as any other judgment or decree,” see section 682.15, Florida Statutes (2005), the trial court has the authority to stay execution on the judgment during the pendency of the further proceedings based on a…”
Ross v. Prospectsplus!, Inc., 182 So. 3d 802 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). “Section 682.15 states that “[u]pon granting an order confirming .”
Carpet Concepts of St. Petersburg, Inc. v. Architectural Concepts, Inc., 559 So. 2d 303 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990). “Since such a judgment is "enforced as any other judgment or decree," section 682.15, Florida Statutes (1987), the trial court does have authority to stay execution on the judgment during the pendency of the second arbitration if Architectural Concepts provides a bond or…”
Paige v. Am. Sec. Ins. Co., 987 So. 2d 128 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008). “” § 682.15, Fla. Stat. (emphasis added). Rule 1.”
Aviation Performance Solutions, LLC v. Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP (Fla. 4th DCA 2025). “We also awarded attorney’s fees to Matthews, conditioned on the trial court determining he was entitled to fees based on section 682.15, Florida Statutes (2019). At a subsequent hearing, the trial court determined that Matthews was entitled to fees for the appeal as well as fees…”
Andrew H. Warner, Inc. v. Siga, Inc., 690 So. 2d 626 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997). “In final judgments taxing attorneys’ fees and costs, the trial court awarded Siga 8,-000.”
The Residences at the Bath Club Condo. Ass'n, Inc., Etc. v. Bath Club Ent., LLC, Etc. (Fla. 3d DCA 2023). “Pursuant to section 682.15, Florida Statutes, the arbitral award was confirmed in a final judgment rendered by the trial court in May 2014.”
Lyons Heritage Tampa, LLC v. Phillips, Phillips (Fla. 2d DCA 2024). “In March 2022, the Phillipses filed in the circuit court a motion to clarify the September 2020 final judgment and to confirm their entitlement to fees and costs as the prevailing party pursuant to section 682.15. Lyons Heritage filed a response in opposition to this motion.”
Bog Twelve Zahav Fl, LLC, Zahav Florida, LLC v. White Hawk Asset Mgmt., Inc. (Fla. 2d DCA 2024). “" Section 682.15, the second statutory provision, demands that when the circuit court enters an order, as was done here, confirming the arbitration award, "the court shall enter a judgment in conformity" with the arbitration award.”
Kineard v. State, Dept. of Juv. Just., 987 So. 2d 1231 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008). “See § 682.15, Fla. Stat. (2007); City of Tallahassee v.”
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Bog Twelve Zahav Fl, LLC, Zahav Florida, LLC v. White Hawk Asset Mgmt., Inc. (Fla. 2d DCA 2024). “" Section 682.15, the second statutory provision, demands that when the circuit court enters an order, as was done here, confirming the arbitration award, "the court shall enter a judgment in conformity" with the arbitration award.”
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