Surfside condo collapse

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Despite the uplifting news of a nearly $1 billion settlement in the Surfside condo collapse case, the ordeal of divvying up that massive sum isn’t over.

Attorneys representing victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse announced that after working with a mediator, they reached a tentative deal of $997 million for the wrongful death claimants.

Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement.

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A date has been set to sell the beachfront property in Surfside where the Champlain Towers South collapse took place last year.

It's been almost a year since a condominium building collapsed in Surfside, Fla., killing 98 people. Legal wrangling continues about how to pay the victims and honor those who died in the accident.

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Even before legislative proposals to reform condo safety post-Surfside died on the doorstep of the Florida House last month, a reaction was brewing in the marketplace.

Lawmakers wrapped up the regular 2022 Florida legislative session in March without passing a bill that would create a statewide standard for ensuring that residential buildings are safe to live in. Some elected officials gathered April 14, 2022, at the site of the former Champlain Towers South on Collins Avenue in Surfside to express urgency for a new law in Florida.

Over the nine months since the Champlain Towers South building collapsed in Surfside, tension has grown between those who lost their homes and those who lost their loved ones. Now a judge in Miami and newly elected officials in Surfside are charting a path forward.