DIEGO MERA AND Z TRIM, INC.
v.
AMERICAN EXPRESS NATIONAL BANK

Fla. 4th DCA | 2021-03-24
No. 21-0046
Phillips, J., Levine, C.J., Warner, J., Ciklin, J.
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2021)

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Holding

A trial court errs in denying a motion to compel arbitration when the parties have agreed to arbitrate their disputes.


Facts & Procedural History

Diego Mera and Z Trim, Inc. initiated a lawsuit against American Express National Bank in Broward County Circuit Court. American Express moved to comp…

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Opinion of the Court
Levine

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

DIEGO MERA and Z TRIM, INC., Appellants,

v.

AMERICAN EXPRESS NATIONAL BANK, Appellee.

No. 4D21-46

[March 24, 2021]

Appeal of a nonfinal order from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Carol-Lisa Phillips, Judge; L.T. Case No. 19-004520 CACE (25).

David A. Strauss of The Strauss Law Firm, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Zoran D. Jovanovich of Zwicker & Associates, P.C., Deerfield Beach, for appellee.

CONFESSION OF ERROR

PER CURIAM.

Appellee confesses that the trial court erred in denying the motion to compel arbitration. The order is reversed and remanded. The trial court shall enter an order granting the motion to compel arbitration.

Reversed and remanded.

LEVINE, C.J., WARNER and CIKLIN, JJ., concur.

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