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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for Florida cases standing for the proposition that attorney’s fees incurred
<i>pre-suit</i> by the contractor in connection with termination of a subcontractor are recoverable damages as part of the contractor’s costs to complete where the contract enumerates attorney’s fees as one of the items the contractor may recover in this situation.
In other words, these fees are awardable as damages and not merely as prevailing party attorney’s fees in the lawsuit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reese<o:p></o:p></p>
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