MIAMI - One day before the one-year mark of the Champlain Towers South collapse, Judge Michael Hanzman officially approved a roughly $1.02 billion settlement. Ninety-eight people lost their lives when the Surfside condo partially collapsed at 1:22 a.m. The settlement money will be split between surviving families, those who suffered injuries, and the 136 condo owners. Judge Hanzman praised the dozens of lawyers for being able to come to a settlement so quickly and avoiding years of litigation. Cases like these typically take well over a decade to reach a conclusion. "It will never.
A judge on Thursday approved a $1.02 billion settlement for the victims and survivors of the Surfside, Florida condo collapse, one the eve of the one-year anniversary of the disaster that killed 98 people in the middle of the night.
For the survivors and families of the 98 fallen victims of the Surfside condo collapse, the past year has seen a flurry of mourning, litigation and effort to honor or recover all that has been lost.