South Florida attorneys announced on Thursday the completion of a multimillion-dollar settlement in which they said they elicited "unexpected testimony" from one of the defendant's high-level employees.

Michael Flanagan, a partner at Flanagan & Bodenheimer in Fort Lauderdale, was among the lawyers who represented the estate of Dwight Higgins against Driftwood Preservation Ltd. and Interstate Realty Management Co. before Broward Circuit Judge Mily R. Powell.