Court Opinion

ID: 4804929
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-21 04:40:31.264691+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:10:21.662250
License: Public Domain

MAKAR, J.,
concurs with written opinion.
Because dismissal of their initial motion to compel arbitration was denied without prejudice on procedural grounds, appellants may choose to file a supplemental motion to compel arbitration with the necessary contracts (which they say in their initial brief has already been done); if that motion is denied on other than procedural grounds, appellants would be afforded appellate review of the order denying review. The language from Wegner v. Schillinger, 921 So.2d 854, 855 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006), that “Florida law does not authorize multiple motions to compel arbitration” is directed to situations where a litigant fails to promptly pursue appellate relief of the denial of an initial motion to compel arbitration on the merits and later makes additional attempts to institute efforts to compel arbitration. See Freedom Life Ins. Co. of America v. Wallant, 953 So.2d 16, 18 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). Because appellants seek only to have their initial request to compel arbitration heard on the merits for the first time, I concur in dismissal.