FILE - Workers in a bucket hoisted by a crane begin the process of preparing the two unstable cranes for implosion on Oct. 18, 2019, at the collapse site of the Hard Rock Hotel, which underwent a partial, major collapse while under construction in New Orleans. A New Orleans judge has brought in a mediator to try to work out a settlement with hundreds of people who claim damage from the hotel construction collapse nearly three years ago. Plaintiffs say they were injured, a loved one killed, or their business damaged when upper stories of the planned Hard Rock Hotel collapsed on Oct. 12.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)