Manzini v. Clark

Full title: MANZINI ASSOCIATES, P.A., Appellant, v. Joanna CLARK and Mercy Hospital…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Nov 21, 2007

971 So. 2d 882 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)

Opinion

No. 3D06-3131.

November 21, 2007.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jon I. Gordon, and Stuart M. Simon, Judges.

Nicolas A. Manzini, for appellant.

Wolpe Leibowitz Alvarez Fernandez, LLP, and Mark A. Leibowitz, Miami, and Alia A. Szopa; Lewis E. Fishman, P.A. and Lewis W. Fishman, Miami, for appellee Mercy Hospital, Inc.

Before COPE and WELLS, JJ., and FLETCHER, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. Litman v. Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash, Block England, P.A., 517 So.2d 88, 92 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987) (stating that "where there are no proceeds of the judgment, there is nothing to which a lien may, as a practical matter, attach"); Pasin v. Kroo, 412 So.2d 43, 44 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982) ("The lien may not issue if no proceeds have been recovered.").