New York agrees World Trade Center 9/11 Dust Payout

Now any suspicious mind would ask why pay if you deny responsibility wouldn't it?











Fireman at Ground Zero on 11 September 2001
Thousands of rescue and clean-up workers say the dust made them sick






New York City officials have agreed to pay up to $657.5m (£437m) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers at the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 attacks.

The settlement would compensate more than 10,000 plaintiffs who say they were made sick by dust from the collapsed World Trade Center towers.

At least 95% of the plaintiffs must approve the deal for it to take effect.

The money would come from a federally financed insurance fund of almost $1bn that the city controls.

A claims adjudicator, chosen by the lawyers involved in the case, would decide on the validity of each plaintiff's claim and how much compensation they were entitled
to.


Respiratory illnesses

The agreement follows a long battle in the courts, but must still be approved by a judge and agreed to by the claimants.












The announcement was made on Thursday evening by the World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company, which was set up to handle the claims of those injured in the rescue effort.

In a statement, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the settlement "a fair and reasonable resolution to a complex set of circumstances".

Some workers are expected to receive payments of only a few thousand dollars, while others could be in line to get more than $1m, depending on their
injuries.

'Fund depleted'

The BBC's Adam Brookes, in Washington, says the agreement means that the long-running legal battle spawned by the 9/11 attacks may now be drawing to a close.




The 9/11 attacks
The twin towers' fall covered Lower Manhattan in dust and debris






After the twin towers fell on 11 September 2001, rescuers spent weeks amid the smouldering wreckage and choking dust in Lower Manhattan, but few were adequately insured for such work.


The government set up a special insurance company to handle claims if any of them ended up injured or sick.

The claims came flooding in, many for cancer and respiratory illness caused by dust.


By early 2008, according to government documents, nearly 10,000 law suits had been filed against the insurance company.

But only six claims were paid out.

Lawyers for the city had claimed it did its best to provide respiratory equipment for workers, and challenged some claims as being based on
flimsy medical evidence.

Marc Bern, a senior partner with the law firm which negotiated the deal, said: "We are gratified that these heroic men and women who performed their duties without consideration of
the health implications will finally receive just compensation for
their pain and suffering."

It is thought that the long courts battle has depleted the $1bn fund created by Congress to help insure the city, with the legal bill so far running to more than $200m.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8563554.stm

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