I don’t think I would admit that I heard these noises. When you sue, the defendant will say you had contributory negligence because you heard the noises and did not act.
LOL!
Maybe you need to change your Freeper name.
These home owners were either kept in the dark as to the condition of the bldg or voted to defer spending big $$
That will come out in time
Some Surfside code guy has already lawyered up.
She heard these noises just minutes before the collapse; what should she have done? Call Superman?
I don’t think I would admit that I heard these noises. When you sue, the defendant will say you had contributory negligence because you heard the noises and did not act.
WTHeck????
She heard these noises as she was awakened.....and, was subsequently escaping from the falling building.
FTA....
Monteagudo described her escape: “When I was running down the stairs I went from six, to five and then four, I heard a tremendous noise. It was infernal. The building was falling. I don’t know how I managed to escape.”
How on Earth could she EVER be negligent, for hearing noises.....while ESCAPING???
She was acting, alright.
What did you want her to do? Stop and knock on everyone’s door, after she called 911??
Point well taken...more sleazy lawyers in Miami than the rest of the country combined!
Yea, I’m sure she had the time to file some sort of impact statement at the information desk in the lobby as she was running out.
Armchair engineers and lawyers are amazing.
Idiot..she heard the noise right before it collapsed.
You are correct she should had dashed to the phone and call a lawyer and gotten advise as to what to do next. her hasty exit most likely cost her next of kin thousands in settlement money!
buildings always make noises
shes not a contractor
the average person assumes the building noises they hear are just normal noises of stuff travelling through pipes, or creaking due to weather
and that if she did bring this up to a super that is exactly what they would tell any tenant, short of seeing major obvious structural cracks and damage
and a good lawyer on her side would point that out
further the owners of this bldg and the tenants already knew the building had issues and had done studies on the building, and this year they were getting ready to implememnt fixes to the problems
so theres no contributory negligence in this case
Florida is a comparative negligence state. So even if an argument could be made that her failure to recognize the building was collapsing and run out was negligence (which it couldn’t), her degree of negligence would be minuscule compared to that of the building owner and any contractor working on the building. The reality is that the defendants will not have nearly enough insurance or assets to cover even a fraction of the claims.