Former CBRE executive sues firm

Anne-Marie Ayers, who spent more than two decades as a top broker at commercial real estate services firm CBRE Inc. before being terminated last year, has filed a lawsuit against the company in Tampa.

Ayers alleges that CBRE and Michael DiBlasi, who was tapped to become the brokerage firm’s managing partner in Tampa last March, wrongfully fired her after a period of “harassment” and “intimidation,” according to a complaint filed last year in the Thirteenth Circuit Court in Hillsborough County.