Podcast: Surfside Condo collapse – legal issues

The New York Times reports that team that developed Champlain Towers – which partially collapsed and killed 98 people – managed to build the condos despite checkered pasts, internal strife and a last-minute change that infuriated leaders in Surfside, Fla. Read “They Were Bullies.”

On 1370 WCOA this morning, I talked with attorney Tyler Berding, founding partner of Berding & Weil LLP, about who is legally to blame for the Surfside tragedy and how long can cases like this take to litigate. His firm has resolved over 900 complex construction-defect claims in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”