Six years after construction stopped on a failed effort to build an ice hockey rink near Sarasota, Fla., a Fulton County judge tossed out a suit by a construction company seeking $12 million from an Atlanta accounting firm that represented the man who planned the project, former American Family Life Assurance Company now Aflac President Salvador Diaz-Verson Jr.
International construction company Walbridge Aldinger alleged that it had relied on an audit of Diaz-Verson’s financial status by Diaz-Verson’s accounting firm, Porter Keadle Moore, before it sunk millions into the rink. Walbridge Aldinger initially went forward with the construction, leading to a partially built shell that loomed over a tony Manatee County community for years until it was razed in 2009.
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