I’m a Florida lawyer and I’ll tell you this is no big deal. If they are owed money then they will get paid. If not then they won’t. It’s just a commercial dispute. Happens all the time. Usually because the general contractor
went bust and did not pay the subs.
Hell, 20 years ago, we had our building built by one of the most reputable contractors in the area. Little did we know he had developed an addiction to cocaine just before accepting our contract. When the job was finished and he presented his final bill and we paid him, he had not paid a single sub-contractor for the work and they ALL had filed liens on the building for everything they did. . . Which totaled almost what we paid him. He had nothing left of the payments we had made at various points along the progress of building. . . and we were not the only ones he defrauded. Luckily, our attorney had required a pre-paid performance bond! Our sub-contractors got paid from the insurance company who provided the bond. Others customers of his did not. He went to prison for fraud and some of his subs did indeed go bankrupt. . . and some of his building projects that were in mid-construction were left un-completed when the subs found out what was going on. He'd been stringing people on for quite some time, borrowing from multiple banks to pay off earlier subs, and draining his own assets. By the time our building got finished, everything had gone up his nose.