Attorneys for the victims of the bridge collapse that killed 13 people in Minneapolis in August 2007 announced Monday that they had reached a settlement with the engineering company responsible for inspecting the bridge. In negotiations held this past weekend, San Francisco-based URS Corp. agreed to pay $52.4 million to more than 100 people who sued the company in Minnesota state court.
Monday’s settlement announcement concludes three years of work on behalf of the victims by a 17-firm pro bono consortium led by Chris Messerly and Philip Sieff at Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi. The I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River on Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
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