Crown Castle Sues Excavator for $27,000 in Damages to Underground Cable

Defendant Central Civil Construction, while excavating with mechanized equipment at a Miami intersection in September 2019, caused nearly $27,000 in damages to Crown Castle’s underground cable, resulting in the loss of the use of that cable, alleged Crown Castle’s negligence complaint Tuesday (docket 2023-123017-CC-24) in 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The complaint alleges Central Civil failed to provide, as required by state law, the Florida “one-call notification system” timely notice of the location and date of its planned work. The defendant also failed to excavate “in a careful and prudent manner based on accepted engineering and construction practices,” it said.