A private contractor filed a lawsuit on July 7 against the Florida Division of Emergency Management for $4.4 million for allegedly not paying for COVID-19 test kits, seeking damages, interest, and “other costs.”
According to the lawsuit, the state agreed to order a total of 600,000 test kits in March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emails from emergency management confirm the purchase, but the lawsuit claims that the state only paid for one-third of the tests that were ordered.
