( August 5, 2024, 2:09 PM EDT) -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A federal magistrate judge in Florida held that a contractor’s surety is entitled to attorney fees and expenses under a performance bond that was issued by a subcontractor’s surety and under Florida Statutes Section 627.756(1), recommending that the court partly grant the insurer’s motion for attorney fees and costs in the subcontractor’s lawsuit brought under the Miller Act seeking $295,871.34 under a payment bond for its pretermination work at a U.S. naval station....