Families, Survivors Set For $1 Billion Settlement Over Surfside Condo Collapse

A Miami-Dade County Police boat patrols in front of the Champlain Towers South condo building, where search and rescue efforts continued for more than a week after the building partially collapsed on June 24, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Mark Humphrey/AP Photo

A $1 billion settlement has been tentatively reached in the class-action lawsuit brought by victims’ families and survivors of the Surfside Condominium in Florida that collapsed in June 2021.

“I’m shocked by this result—I think it’s fantastic,” attorney for the families and victims Harley Tropin told reporters on May 11. “This is a recovery that is far in excess of what I had anticipated.”