David Baron, an attorney at law firm Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP who is representing the plaintiffs, declined to comment. Grace Mead, an attorney at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson PA who represents LafargeHolcim, also declined to comment.
The mediator, Layn Phillips, as well declined to comment, citing confidentiality constraints. Neither would a spokesman for LafargeHolcim comment.
The plaintiffs brought the lawsuit against LafargeHolcim, two of its subsidiaries, and three other entities, seeking up to $810 million in monetary damages, according to the complaint. The plaintiffs said they own 100% of claims to the property, and that those claims were certified by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, a quasi-judicial agency within the U.S. Justice Department, which valued the property at more than $11 million in 1969, according to the complaint.