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Update:
- An $83 million settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed against several entities involved in the maintenance and construction of the Surfside building that collapsed.
- Each owner of the building’s condominiums will receive $50 million from the settlement pool as compensation for their condos and contents. Once the settlement pool reaches $100 million, they will receive the remaining $33 million. Per the settlement, owners will be relieved from liability for injury and wrongful death claims, which would typically happen under Florida state law.
- The settlement must still be approved by the court. The final approval hearing is on Mar. 30.
Florida Condo Collapse Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: Victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium will not have their case go to trial until March 2023.
- Why: Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael A. Hanzman has allowed an extension on the trial date after the defendants’ attorneys said they would not be able to finish their investigation until December.
- Where: The trial will be held in Florida federal court.
(12/07/2022)
After originally hoping to start a trial this year over the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, which killed 98 people, a judge has agreed to push the trial back to March 2023.
During a status conference held on Zoom Jan. 5, Eleventh Circuit Judge Michael A. Hanzman said he would “reluctantly” extend the trial date by six months, after hearing from the defendants’ attorneys who said their investigation would not be complete until December, Law360 reported.
Hanzman had originally hoped to have the case go to trial by summer 2022 at the latest, telling counsel they must “roll up their sleeves and get moving.”
However, at the hearing, Greenberg Traurig LLP’s David Weinstein, who spoke on behalf of the defendants, told the court that experts would not be finished on the collapse site until December and then needed further time to file reports. He asked for a delay to September 2023, but Judge Hanzman said that was far too long.
No Further Delays To Be Granted, Judge Says
In granting the extension to March 2023, the judge said no further delays would be granted unless there were serious extenuating circumstances.
“That is a firm deadline ladies and gentlemen so do not bank on any continuances,” he reportedly said.
The defendants in the case so far include the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association, its lawyers Becker & Poliakoff PA, engineering firm Morabito Consultants Inc. and the builders of neighboring condos Eighty Seven Park.
They say those builders performed destructive work dangerously close to Champlain Towers.
Were you impacted by the collapse of the Surfside tower? Let us know in the comments section below!
The victims are represented by Harley Tropin and Javier Lopez of Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, Rachel Furst and Stuart Grossman of Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen PA, Ricardo Martinez-Cid of Podhurst Orseck PA, Adam Moskowitz of The Moskowitz Law Firm, MaryBeth LippSmith of LippSmith LLP, John Ruiz of MSP Recovery Law Firm, Brad Sohn of The Brad Sohn Law Firm PLLC, John Scarola of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA, Robert Mongeluzzi of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC, Shannon Del Prado of Pita Weber & Del Prado, Gonzalo Dorta of Dorta Law, Judd Rosen of Goldberg & Rosen PA, Luis Suarez of Heise Suarez Melville PA, Jorge Silva of Silva & Silva PA and Willie Gary of Gary Williams Parenti Watson & Gary PLLC.
The Surfside Towers Collapse Class Action Lawsuit is In re: Champlain Towers South Collapse Litigation, Case No. 2021-015089-CA, in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of the State of Florida.
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