U.S., Ship Owner File Settlement Notice In Exoneration Suit Over Bridge Collapse

( October 25, 2024, 11:42 AM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — The United States and the owner and technical manager of the ship that allided with and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore filed a joint notice on Oct. 24 indicating they have reached a settlement and asked a Maryland federal court to dismiss the United States’ Sept. 18 claim and answer to the ship owner’s petition for exoneration from or limitation of liability for the casualties and damage arising from the bridge collapse....