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The condo association officers are likely volunteers, elected by the condo owners, and indemnified by the association. They are just homeowners like everyone el

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > The condo association officers are likely volunteers, elected by the condo owners, and indemnified by the association. Indemnity tends to have limited scope, and whether a particular claim is within it is a question resolved in a lawsuit. > They are just homeowners like everyone else No, they aren't, because they are differently situated. > unlikely to have any expertise in engineering or understanding engineering reports. Special expertise is not required for culpabale negligence or culpable non-, mis-, or malfeasance. Whether, for instance, the reports they received provided sufficient notice of danger that they should, under the duty of carr applicable, have acted differently and their failure to so contributed to the harms to persons and property in the collapse is...precisely the kind of question resolved in a lawsuit. > And possibly also now dead. Death does not erase legal liabilities, generally. Its true that, after published notice of death, there is usually a limited time to file claims against the estate (which, with a live defendant, might have more time under applicable statutes of limitations, etc.) But that just adds urgency to identifying and acting on potential claims here, where, yes, some of the potential defendants might also have died in the event.