“The agreement right now is for US$997 million. There will be approximately another US$100 million that we will recover,” said lawyer Carlos Silva.
The 12-story Champlain Towers South building partially collapsed in the early morning of June 24 facing the sea in Surfside, north of Miami Beach.
The agreement, announced Wednesday in a Miami-Dade County court, settles a class action lawsuit against several entities.
For example, the construction company of a building next to the Champlain Towers South, accused by the victims of contributing to the collapse by having generated vibrations while working on the adjacent land.
The reasons for the catastrophe have not yet been established with certainty, but the first elements of the investigation revealed that the structure of the building seemed to be degraded in some parts.
After the collapse, firefighters worked for weeks looking for possible survivors.
But, except for one teenager rescued hours after the collapse, no one was found alive in the rubble.
The judge in charge of the case, Michael Hanzman, had already approved an $83 million settlement for apartment owners in the building in March.
The testimony of Nico Vázquez days after the collapse
Nicholas Vazquez Y Gimena Accardi They were staying in an apartment in the complex located in the US city of Miami. Days after the fact, the actor said that he still they were shocked Y assured that they were close to not telling.
“The truth is that we are still in shock, there are missing people, there are dead people and this continues for many loved ones who are going to have to suffer that loss, the truth is that what we lived with Gime was a very strong moment“Vázquez said in an audio sent to a TN journalist.
Then, the actor recounted what happened: “We came back from dinner, I parked the car as usual in the garage and we heard a very loud noise but we did not understand what was happening. After six or seven seconds we went up to the elevator and it moved when I was standing in the lobby of the building“.
“At that moment a very strong cloud of dust started, a very strong noise, we did not understand what was happening, if it was a tornado, an attack, it was the closest thing to a movie, and we began to run together with some people who were overwhelmed by nerves, but there were not many“, he continued.
“Just when we left we understood that part of what was the parking lot with many sunken cars had fallen, the alarms sounded, he explained. In turn, he added that Gime made him realize how close they had been to not telling her.
“We’ve never heard anything like this in our lives”, he stated. Vázquez assured that they they were not very aware of what was happening because there was such a big dust cloud and because of the noise.
Hours earlier, the couple posted an Instagram story on their social media that read: “We are fine. Thanks for caring”.
Vázquez and Accardi were in Miami for labor issues and hours before the collapse they had dined with the Argentine impersonator and comedian Martin Bossywho is staying in another area of the city.
Source: Ambito
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