USA: 83 million dollars will be distributed among owners affected by the collapse in Miami-Dade

The lawyers of the apartment owners of the building that collapsed in Surfside, Florida (USA), which caused the death of almost a hundred people, reached a “tentative” agreement by which they will distribute 83 million dollars between who lost their homes, according to local media reported this Friday.

The aforementioned sum would be divided among those who lost their properties in the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building, which occurred in June 2021 in Surfside, Miami-Dade County, which partially collapsed in the middle of the night while its inhabitants slept.

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The agreement, reached in the last hours in a mediation session, must still be approved by Judge Michael Hanzman, in charge of the case, who has already set the trial for March 2023, collected on NBC6 channel

The $83 million would be split among apartment owners based on the relative value of each unit and would not be subject to assessment, regardless of how much is ultimately awarded in damages for death, negligence and personal injury.

However, wrongful death lawsuits by the families of the 98 people who died in the collapse will continue.

According to the aforementioned television channel, those who have filed wrongful death or personal injury claims will divide among themselves any other funds that are recovered, such as from the sale of the land, money from insurance or claims against third parties.

The 12-story building, built in 1981, was in the midst of a recertification process, a structural and electrical study required by law as a 40-year-old building, when part of it collapsed in the middle of the night, killing 98 people.

The rest of the structure was demolished on July 4, 2021 with explosive charges to facilitate the discovery of the victims’ bodies and prevent it from falling on rescuers.

In November of that same year, a lawsuit was filed alleging that the excavation and construction of an adjoining luxury building worsened serious structural defects that already existed in Champlain Towers South.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NITS) is the agency leading the federal investigation into the collapse, whose final report will be a key part of the process.

Judge Hanzman himself approved last October a contract for the sale of the site where Champlain Towers South was located for 120 million dollars, in order to set the minimum price for the public auction that will take place in 2022.

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Source: Elcomercio

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