Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein yesterday approved the settlement in the 9/11 respiratory illness litigation at the end of a nearly seven-hour long hearing. The judge and lawyers for the parties in the litigation pushed hard to persuade World Trade Center rescue and cleanup workers exposed to allegedly toxic dust at the site to accept a settlement that could run as high as $716 million.
June 24, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein yesterday approved the settlement in the 9/11 respiratory illness litigation at the end of a nearly seven-hour long hearing.
The judge and lawyers for the parties in the litigation pushed hard to persuade World Trade Center rescue and cleanup workers exposed to allegedly toxic dust at the site to accept a settlement that could run as high as $716 million.
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