[net-gold] UNITED STATES: STATES: MINNESOTA : BRIDGES : LAW CASE: DECISIONS: $52 Million Settlement in Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
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- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:46:37 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: STATES: MINNESOTA :
BRIDGES :
LAW CASE: DECISIONS:
$52 Million Settlement in Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
$52 Million Settlement in Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 23, 2010
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/us/24bridge.html>
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) After enduring countless surgeries and hours of court
hearings, victims of the deadly collapse in 2007 of the Interstate 35W
bridge here reached the end of their legal fight after an engineering
company agreed to pay $52.4 million to settle scores of lawsuits.
The settlement by the URS Corporation of San Francisco was agreed to more
than a week ago but kept quiet until Monday. It resolves the last major
piece of litigation brought by victims.
All told, the State of Minnesota and two of its contractors will have paid
out $100 million to the families of the 13 people killed and the 145
injured when the bridge over the Mississippi River broke apart.
The settlement averts a trial, which had been scheduled for spring, that
could have opened URS to punitive damages.
URS had argued that its engineers did not know about a design flaw in the
bridge that made it vulnerable. In a statement, it said that the
settlement was necessary to avoid protracted litigation and that it
admitted no fault.
At a news conference, several survivors said they were relieved by the
settlement.
In this nation, justice is spelled out in dollars, said Garrett Ebling,
who had every bone in his face broken and spent two months in the
hospital. But Mr. Ebling said victims would trade every dollar we receive
from this settlement for an original bridge that was built, maintained and
inspected properly.
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