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May 13, 2022

Surfside families still want answers despite settlement

  • The speed and size of the proposed $997 million agreement stunned even the presiding judge.
    • By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and TERRY SPENCER
    Associated Press

    SURFSIDE, Fla.- Gathered at a ceremony Thursday to honor the 98 people who died in a Florida condominium collapse last summer, some of the victims' family members said they are too deep in mourning to contemplate the nearly $1 billion settlement their attorneys negotiated on their behalf.

    Families and local officials gathered at the chain-link fence surrounding the vacant lot where Champlain Towers South once stood for the unveiling of temporary banners adorned with the victims' names and ages under the heading “Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Brothers, Sisters.”


     
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