Blits v. Renaissance Cruises, Inc.

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• holding that where court stated on record it would award $11,250 and that it derived this number by multiplying seventy-five hours times $150.00 an hour, reversal was not required, despite the lack of findings in the written order
• holding that since the trial court stated on record the .number of hours and hourly rate on which attorney’s fees award was based, failure to include number of hours and hourly rate in written order was harmless error
• holding that reversal was not required, despite the lack of findings in the written order, where the trial court stated on the record that it would award $11,250 and that it derived this number by multiplying seventy-five hours times $150 an hour
• a written order's deficiencies may be harmless if the requisite findings are pronounced by the judge on the record
• harmless error where the trial court failed to make sufficient written findings of fact in its order awarding attorney’s fees, but stated its findings on the record at the evidentiary hearing
• trial court’s oral pro nouncement at an evidentiary hearing on attorneys’ fees that it arrived at its $11,250 fees award by multiplying seventy-five hours of work times $150 an hour rendered the court’s failure to make the explicit findings required by Rowe harmless

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