NATIONAL BRIEFING / MINNESOTA
The state reached final settlements with all 179 eligible victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in downtown Minneapolis two years ago.
Settlements ranged from $4,500 to each of five survivors, to more than $2.2 million for a woman who required extensive therapy for brain damage. Five other settlements were worth more than $1 million.
The Aug. 1, 2007, collapse of one of the state’s busiest bridges during the evening rush hour killed 13 people and injured 145.
The National Transportation Safety Board concluded in November that the bridge collapsed because a crucial steel gusset plate connecting bridge beams was half as thick as it should have been, due to a flaw in the original design from the 1960s.
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