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development in the surfside condo collapse, 22 are dead and 126 are still missing. as the state prepares for hurricane elsa to make landfall next week, a possible huge disruption to these search efforts. demands for answers are growing. this morning, one of the residents who survived the collapse, has now filed a lawsuit against the property, the second lawsuit made public since the collapse. he s claiming the condo association knew the building was deteriorating. joining me right now is the attorney representing that resident, robert mickey. thank you for being here. my pleasure. your client shared a scary photo of the damage inside the condo after the collapse and now his lawsuit is alleging that it could have been prevented. you see right there, it could have been prevented if the property didn t neglect repairs, according to your client. there was that report from 2018, the engineer who also detailed some damages throughout the building. how long have residents been complaining
conditions there? well, i know a prior resident back in 2012, and then again in 2014 complained that by a lawsuit that they weren t maintaining the building such that cracks were causing water intrusion into her apartment. she had to sue them on two different occasions because the first one they didn t do what they promised to do and she had to sue them again. that s back, 2012, 2014. since we see a lot of this in these water front buildings, this concrete cancer, the spalling of the steel through the water intrusion into these buildings is quite rampant throughout, including this particular building. so the sham plain tower was subject to a 2015 lawsuit claiming the building had structural deficiencies in its outer walls. how do you sense that will factor in to your lawsuit? well, an association has an obligation to do maintenance and to repair.