South Florida Dirt: Miami jury sends a $48M message with commission suit verdict

A Miami-Dade County jury found that the buyer of a modest Golden Beach home cheated his broker out of a commission. The amount at the center of the case? $84,000 for the $2.8 million sale of a waterfront home in Golden Beach just before the pandemic.  That’s not what caught my eye.  The jury ruled that the client, jewelry store owner Reuben Ezekiel, was on the hook for $47.8 million in damages, including punitive and compensatory damages. That immediately prompted me to ask (first, the Internet, and then real experts) how?  Civil juries have the ability to issue such awards […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.