A class action believed to involve hundreds of individuals and companies caught up in the cladding crisis could help developers recoup restoration costs.

In what will likely be the biggest courtroom battle in the country this year, the outcome of the cladding crisis will play out publicly as parties and their legal eagles look to resolve the long-running dispute that has threatened to push some into bankruptcy.

Authorities have deemed more than 3400 residential apartment buildings unsafe—constructed with combustible cladding.