Judge Frank M. Hull of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
In a ruling that the winning lawyer said saved the construction industry from being “turned on its head,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has reversed an award of $155,000 in legal fees in a dispute over the superstructure at Miami’s $1 billion Brickell CityCentre.
Senior Circuit Judge Frank Hull wrote the decision released Monday, joined by Judges Robin Rosenbaum and Julie Carnes. The panel reversed a ruling from U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke of the Southern District of Florida granting $154,536 in attorney fees to International Fidelity Insurance Co. and Allegheny Casualty Co. — referred to jointly by the court as Fidelity.
