A Florida appellate court on Wednesday reversed a $1.3 million award to the city of Miami Beach for claimed landscaping defects at South Pointe Park and cleared a contractor of liability for safety problems at the park’s playground.
Miami Beach did not give contractor Magnum Construction Management Corp. the opportunity to fix the playground, as the city was required to do under the contract, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled. Instead, Miami Beach replaced the playground entirely, even though many of the defects “could have been easily corrected,” according to the decision.
