Bidon v. State, Department of Professional Regulations

ANSTEAD, Judge.

We affirm the order of the Florida Real Estate Commission denying appellants’ *479claims for attorney’s fees from the Florida Real Estate Recovery Fund.

The Fund was set up by the legislature in part to reimburse persons who are victimized by unscrupulous real estate agents. Appellants made claims against the Fund based on civil judgments recovered in 1989 against a broker who failed to return deposits from two failed real estate transactions in early 1988. The judgments included amounts for attorney’s fees taxed against the broker pursuant to the broker’s contract with appellants.…