Within a day of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, the lawsuits began.
While most of them to date have been aimed at the building’s condominium association, the city of Surfside and the engineering firms that conducted inspections on the structure, others target “any person or entity that might bear some responsibility” for the tragedy, according to news reports.
Construction attorneys say contractors often make the faulty assumption that they can’t be held liable for damages that arise from events that happen on projects they built years ago.
