When Surfside’s Champlain Towers South spontaneously collapsed in the early hours of June 24, 2021, it killed 98 people and triggered an avalanche of legal and insurance issues. For the jurist presiding over the ensuing litigation, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, it’s been a ”draining” and “heart-wrenching” nine months.

“It’s a very unusual class action, to say the least,” Hanzman said.

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