MIAMI — Just hours after a Surfside condo building collapsed and buried 98 people last summer, the first of many lawsuits that would turn into one of the biggest class-action cases in Florida was filed.
On Friday, less than a month before the one-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South tragedy, a team of lawyers representing family members of the deceased submitted a settlement agreement totaling $1,021,199,000 to Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who gave his preliminary approval on Saturday after a final court hearing following around-the-clock negotiations.
“It’s a great result,” Hanzman said Saturday during a court hearing with attorneys on both sides of the massive legal dispute. “This agreement appears to be a very reasonable compromise of the claims.”
