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California passes balcony inspections law in response to Berkeley tragedy
- US
- September 18, 2018, 20:04
California has signed a Bill into law requiring the waterproofing of apartment balconies to be regularly inspected in response to the 2015 tragedy in (...)

Formidable corporate adversaries pay out in latest Berkeley settlements
- Irish News
- November 21, 2017, 03:00
“I heard a crack and knew I was f**ked.” That was how one survivor of the Berkeley balcony collapse is said to have recalled the moment that left the(...)

Berkeley balcony collapse relatives settle cases against firms
- Irish News
- November 20, 2017, 23:39
Relatives of the six students who died in the Berkeley balcony collapse and the seven survivors have settled legal actions against the corporate owner(...)

Unstable materials caused 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse - report
- Irish News
- June 3, 2017, 17:22
The balcony in California that collapsed in 2015 killing six students - five of whom were Irish - was built using unstable materials, a new report sug(...)

Families of Berkeley balcony collapse reach $20m partial settlement
- Irish News
- May 6, 2017, 00:01
The families of the six students who died in the Berkeley balcony collapse and the seven survivors will share more than $20 million (€18 million) afte(...)

Partial settlement reached in Berkeley balcony legal actions
- Irish News
- May 5, 2017, 16:42
The families of five Irish students and one Irish-American who died in the Berkeley balcony collapse in California in June 2015, and the seven survivo(...)

Builder of Berkeley balcony collapse complex has licence revoked
- Irish News
- April 22, 2017, 12:48
The US construction firm which built the apartments in Berkeley, California where five Irish students and an Irish American woman died after a balcony(...)

US senator says Berkeley tragedy Bill ‘will save lives’
- US
- January 20, 2017, 01:00
The Berkeley balcony collapse of 2015, which resulted in the deaths of six students, reminded Californian senator Jerry Hill of an incident in the st(...)

Berkeley balcony group to push forward reforms
- Social Affairs
- December 13, 2016, 21:43
The Berkeley balcony working group is to push forward changes to the Californian building code to prevent future balcony collapses. Irish students O(...)

Berkeley balcony collapse: Firm ‘disregarded building plans’
- US
- December 2, 2016, 20:00
A number of Californian cities are being asked to examine buildings made by Segue Construction, the firm behind the apartment block in Berkeley, San F(...)