Nearly six years after the Hard Rock Hotel collapsed on Canal Street while under construction, the committee that represents more than 400 workers, bystanders and business owners who claim they were harmed by the disaster have reached a tentative settlement with the building’s owner.
Attorney Walter Leger Jr. announced the “agreement in principal” with 1031 Canal Development and its insurers on Thursday morning in Orleans Parish Civil District Court. It came during a hearing that had been scheduled ahead of an upcoming trial in the case.
Details of the settlement must still be finalized and will not be disclosed publicly, said Leger, co-lead counsel for the plaintiff steering committee. The deal does not apply to dozens of other lawsuits filed by victims — as well as by 1031 Canal Development — against the engineer, contractors and steel manufacturer that were involved in building the 18-story hotel…