Monday, October 12, 2026 · Independent Miami Beach journalism
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A property company suing a condominium association alleges a neglected roof caused chronic water intrusion that left their unit damaged and potentially hazardous to health.
Five of eleven affiliated cannabis companies headquartered at 1111 Lincoln Road filed state-law insolvency petitions on July 28, saddled with hundreds of millions in debt and blocked from federal bankruptcy by cannabis's illegal status.
Unit owners at South Bay Club on West Avenue are fighting in court to remove all seven directors at once via a written consent recall, raising a novel question about whether condo bylaws can lower Florida's default signature threshold.
The owner of a Sunset Islands home — a familiar name in Miami Beach luxury development — is asking a circuit court to shrink a nearly $19 million assessment after winning cuts at Miami-Dade's appeal board three years running.
Mediation failed at midday Tuesday; by evening, both sides had sued. The dueling complaints tell opposite stories about why the N Bay Road deal collapsed — with a $500,000 deposit sitting in escrow until a court sorts it out.
The first defendant to answer the lawsuit over a rare Ferrari stolen from a Collins Avenue condo's key room has fired back with a sweeping denial, 22 affirmative defenses, and a demand for a jury trial.
Two weeks after Miami's highest-profile development fraud case became public, an amended complaint escalates it sharply — adding new defaults and defamation counts, and deepening the financial case against the developer behind the $95.75 million claim.
A Miami Beach property owner is suing interior design firm Dida Home, LLC, claiming the company overbilled him across a sweeping Palm Avenue renovation and may have doctored vendor invoices to inflate costs.
A Miami-Dade man is suing driver John Sansac and luxury dealership Braman Motors after a 2026 BMW X5 allegedly struck him from behind while he cycled on 17th Street in Miami Beach last May.
Investors behind a landmark Miami Beach hotel say its developer secretly moved millions in assets into family trusts and shell companies to dodge creditors — right as a coordinated three-step scheme allegedly unfolded.
Grammy-winning rapper Travis Scott faces a Miami-Dade civil lawsuit alleging he punched a yacht captain, threatened to kill three crew members, and later returned to charge them again after police removed him from Miami Beach Marina in June 2024.
Couple alleges their landlord and realtor knew about a major building-wide construction project at Louver House before they signed an $18,000-per-month lease — and said nothing.