An attorney for the owner of a construction barge that crashed into a sailboat carrying campers in Biscayne Bay killing three young girls is speaking out as they face a new lawsuit by one of the survivors.

The lawsuit, filed Friday on behalf of a 9-year-old girl who survived the ordeal, claims Waterfront Construction Inc., the barge's owner, along with the Miami Yacht Club and Youth Sailing Foundation, were "careless, reckless and negligent" and failed to take "adequate measures" to avoid the collision.

A group of five girls and their 19-year-old sailing instructor were on the sailboat when it was struck by the barge near Hibiscus Island on July 28.

The girls were in their last week of a sailing camp for children aged 7 to 15, according to the Miami Yacht Club.

Three girls - 7-year-o

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