FL - Pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida International University, Miami, 2018

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A judge gave the go-ahead Wednesday to allow Miami-based construction company MCM to restructure its financial obligations under Chapter 11 bankruptcy rules. The firm is being sued for wrongful deaths and personal injuries stemming from the 2018 collapse of an innovative pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in which six people died and eight others were injured. MCM was the bridge builder.

Jorge Munilla, president of MCM, said after Wednesday’s proceeding that he was prevented from discussing details because of pending lawsuits and a gag order stemming from the NTSB investigation. Multiple members of the Munilla family, which runs MCM, attended Wednesday’s proceeding.

Insurance proceeds go to victims of collapsed FIU bridge, says builder MCM in court

 

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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article254925107.html

A civil court judge recently scheduled the trial for the Louis Berger Group, a global engineering firm that had been hired to independently review the bridge design, never noting a fatal design flaw. Berger approved the design plan a little more than one year before the pedestrian bridge collapsed on March 15, 2018, killing six people and injuring 10 others.

The widow of Brandon Brownfield, a motorist killed when the bridge collapsed atop his truck, is seeking compensatory damages from Berger. In a ruling last week, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey also ruled that Chelsea Brownfield’s attorneys can ask a jury for punitive damages — which could dramatically increase the amount of money the family gets if it wins at trial.