Participants in the massive, often bitter litigation over respiratory illnesses suffered by police, firefighters and private workers during the response and cleanup at the World Trade Center after 9/11 hailed as historic the settlement reached Thursday. A lawyer with an insurance entity created with a FEMA grant to help the city and contractors manage claims called the case "the largest, certainly the most emotionally wrenching, most medically and scientifically novel and legally complex mass tort litigation in the country."
March 15, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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Participants in the massive, often bitter litigation over respiratory illnesses suffered by police, firefighters and private workers during the response and cleanup at the World Trade Center after 9/11 hailed as historic the settlement reached on Thursday.
Corporation Counsel Michael A. Cardozo said at a Friday morning news conference that he was relieved the city and the plaintiffs will “be able to put this very difficult chapter of history behind us.”
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