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Miami, Florida – Moore & Lee is pleased to announce a decisive victory for our client, a leading design and engineering firm, in a high-stakes dispute with a design-build contractor involving an +$800 million signature bridge project in Miami, Florida. The case, litigated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, involved several complex factual claims and legal issues.

The design-build contractor sought over $405 million in damages, while Moore & Lee—led by partners Thomas Wilson and Robert Windus along with associates Zackary Rogers, Brandon Lee, and Kenny Rafter—pursued a counterclaim for non-payment of fees in excess of $30 million. After the Court granted motions for summary judgment filed on our client’s behalf, the firm secured a favorable settlement for our client.

Moore & Lee obtained Court rulings on dispositive motions that clarified multiple areas of Florida law, including the enforceability of contractual limitation of liability provisions for claims against individual design professionals, the statute of limitations applicable to claims concerning pursuit-phase services on design-build projects, and the function of the independent tort doctrine in states like Florida that have curtailed the economic loss rule. These rulings establish important legal precedent for future design-build projects in Florida and beyond.