Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-12-05 14:06:45.291484+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                          No. 1D18-367
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KEYSTONE AIRPARK AUTHORITY,

    Appellant,

    v.

PIPELINE CONTRACTORS, INC., a
Florida corporation; THE
HANOVER INSURANCE COMPANY,
a New Hampshire corporation;
and PASSERO ASSOCIATES,
L.L.C., a Florida limited liability
company,

    Appellees.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Clay County.
Don H. Lester, Judge.

                         December 5, 2018

PER CURIAM.

     Keystone Airpark Authority appeals the trial court’s award
of attorneys’ fees to Passero Associates based on Keystone not
accepting Passero’s proposal for settlement and following the
entry of a summary judgment in favor of Passero. See Fla. R.
Civ. P. 1.442(c). Keystone asserts that the attorneys’ fees award
must be reversed because the release upon which Passero’s
proposal for settlement was conditioned lacked the required
particularity for the “relevant conditions” and “all nonmonetary
terms of the proposal.” Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.442(c)(2)(C)-(D).

     The release language at issue, while broad and expansive,
does not impermissibly encompass “causes of action that may
accrue in the future based on unrelated facts and events that
have not yet occurred.” See Ambeca, Inc. v. Marina Cove Village
Townhome Ass’n, Inc., 880 So. 2d 811, 812 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004).
Likewise, the release language describing the parties to be
discharged is not so expansive that it lacks sufficient
particularity to inform Keystone of the affiliated parties who
would be governed by the release. See Bd. of Trs. of Fla. Atlantic
Univ. v. Bowman, 853 So. 2d 507 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003).
Accordingly, the order on appeal is

    AFFIRMED.

ROBERTS, MAKAR, and BILBREY, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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James J. Taylor, Jr., and Katelyn J. Taylor of the Taylor Law
Firm, P.A., Keystone Heights, for Appellant.

Curtis L. Brown of Wright, Fulford, Moorhead & Brown, P.A.,
Altamonte Springs, for Appellees.

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