January 10, 2022
For some South Florida condo dwellers, that tap on the shoulder could lead to the deal of a lifetime. The tri-county’s white-hot real estate market is prompting developers to take stock of the region’s older beach front high-rises as potential …
August 2, 2021
I’m finding it difficult to write an insurance piece about the recent collapse of the Champlain Towers Condominium. Before I dive into the insurance aspects, I have to recognize the human part of this tragedy. When those parts of the …
July 15, 2021
Some local building inspectors in Minnesota are fielding questions from residents worried about the safety of their condo buildings following the collapse of a tower in Surfside, Florida, in June. In Minnesota, there is no state requirement for regular inspections …
July 8, 2021
The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday July 7, as workers uncovered 10 more bodies from the rubble and officials sounded more and more grim about the prospects of …
July 6, 2021
The collapse of a condominium tower near Miami will set off years of litigation as victims and their families look to find fault among the building’s management as well as engineers, architects and others, according to legal experts. Disaster struck …
July 1, 2021
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said her office will pursue a grand jury investigation into the collapse of Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, Fla. that has left at least 18 people dead and more than 140 unaccounted for. …
June 30, 2021
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after …
June 29, 2021
Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster. Pouring …
June 28, 2021
A town inspector had assured residents of a high-rise condominium in Surfside, Florida, that their building was sound a month after an engineering report warned of major structural damage that required prompt repair in 2018, U.S. media reported. The Champlain …
June 28, 2021
The ground-floor pool deck of the oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami was resting on a concrete slab that had “major structural damage” and needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report that also uncovered “abundant …