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Condo Assoc./Performance Bonds

Condo Associations  are  Successors-in-Right to Contractor Performance Bonds,and may bring action on the Bond.


Ed Fleming successfully argued, in a case published in the Florida Supplement, that a Condominium Association has standing to sue a performance bond Surety both as a successor in interest to the developer, as well as an assignee.  

The trial court followed, as persuasive, a First District Court of Appeals decision in Florida that was withdrawn after the Surety settled with the Association, and made consent to withdrawal of the opinion a condition of the settlement.  The full opinion can be read below:

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