Case Name: FINLAY CLINICS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. ABACUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2005-03-09
Citations: 895 So. 2d 1262
Docket Number: No. 3D04-1573
Parties: FINLAY CLINICS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. ABACUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee.
Judges: Before SHEPHERD and CORTINAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 895
Pages: 1262–1263

Head Matter:
FINLAY CLINICS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. ABACUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee.
No. 3D04-1573.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
March 9, 2005.
Alan C. Gold, Miami, and James.L. Par-ado, for appellant.
Lauri Waldman Ross; Michael Schiffrin, Miami, for appellee.
Before SHEPHERD and CORTINAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We affirm the decision below that the transactions in question were, as a matter of law, not loans of money to which usury statutes could apply. See Perry v. Beckerman, 97 So.2d 860 (Fla.1957); Foster v. Weber, 578 So.2d 857 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). See generally Carter v. Four Seasons Funding Corp., 851 Ark. 637, 97 S.W.3d 387 (2003).