BALTIMORE (WBFF) — About one and a half years after a container ship struck and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, a settlement could be on the horizon between the vessel’s owners and operators and those who lost family member or were injured in the early morning disaster.
Federal court records show a mutually requested settlement conference has been scheduled for Nov. 3 between the shipping companies and the wrongful death and survival claimants.
After the Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River in March 2024, leaving six overnight crew workers dead, one injured and another stranded, dozens of lawsuits were filed against the owners and managers of the Dali, the Singaporean container ship that drifted off course during a reported power outage…