FIU Bridge Collapse

It’s been nearly three years since six people were killed when a pedestrian bridge collapsed at Florida International University

We already know errors in design and a failure to catch those errors were the root causes of the FIU bridge collapse that killed six people in 2018. But now, NBC 6 Investigator Tony Pipitone found a new Inspector General report poses another question: could a federal agency have caught the catastrophic errors?

The lone holdout to the $103 million settlement between victims of the March 2018 FIU bridge collapse and the companies they sued for negligence Wednesday announced it had settled three of the six wrongful death lawsuits. But attorneys for The Louis Berger Group continue to prepare for a trial involving more than a dozen other plaintiffs, where they will seek…

The families of six people killed, along with 10 people injured, when a bridge collapsed at a Miami university are set to receive a nearly $103 million settlement. Judge A. Jay Cristol, with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Miami, approved a reorganization plan Thursday for Magnum Construction Management, formerly known as Munilla Construction Management, that includes the settlement. The plan, which…

Bankruptcy court must approve a settlement agreement involving all but one of the firms being sued in connection with the deadly March 2018 collapse.

The FIU bridge victims would share in nearly $103 million in settlement funds from insurers for 25 defendants, if bankruptcy court approves plan just filed by general contractor MCM.NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone reports.

Court filings reveal some of what was said during a meeting held the morning of the FIU bridge collapse, including how engineers dismissed concerns about cracks, assured colleagues it was safe to keep the road below open and said temporary shoring to hold up the bridge as repairs proceeded was not necessary. Hours later, as work ordered by those engineers...

Exactly what was said in a crucial meeting of engineers the morning the FIU pedestrian bridge collapsed is in dispute. Now a judge is being asked to allow parties in the resulting lawsuits to see how minutes of the meeting changed over time.

Newly released video and court action sheds light on areas of the investigation into the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse.