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September 01, 2010 |

Night of Reckoning

Judge Hellerstein holds an agonizing hearing on the 9/11 settlement.
3 minute read
December 07, 2007 |

N.J. high court designates Ford toxic landfill suits as mass tort

The New Jersey Supreme Court has granted mass-tort designation, at the request of Ford Motor Co. and other defendants, to multiple suits seeking damages for alleged health hazards from a toxic landfill in Passaic County near a former Ford plant. The defendants had argued that the claims by 656 plaintiff homeowners who live on or near the site arise from the same set of facts and plead similar injuries, and that centralized management would save money and streamline the process.
4 minute read
December 14, 2006 |

Academics Appointed as Special Masters to Handle 9/11 Workers' Comp Cases

Faced with an avalanche of claims by workers who suffered respiratory illness while cleaning up the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, Southern District of New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein has appointed two special masters to organize the cases, which plaintiffs lawyers say could eventually number as many as 11,000. Hellerstein named to the positions Aaron D. Twerski, dean of Hofstra University School of Law and James A. Henderson Jr., a professor of Cornell Law School.
4 minute read
September 29, 2005 |

Trial Begins in 12-Year-Old WTC Case

Survivors and families sued the Port Authority for negligence in the bombing in the World Trade Center garage.
4 minute read
April 30, 2008 |

Authority Ruled Liable For '93 WTC Bombing

An appellate court yesterday upheld a jury's finding that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was more than two-thirds responsible for the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center. The Port Authority's failure to implement adequate security measures in the face of warnings that the structure's underground parking garage was vulnerable amounted to negligence, the Appellate Division, First Department, held in an unanimous opinion.
6 minute read
June 15, 2012 |

Q&A: Bob Walden

Since starting his legal photography business at age 39, Walden has spent decades chronicling mishaps, oversights and their human consequences.
8 minute read
December 28, 2010 |

Sept. 11 bill caps attorney fees

Lawyers for those injured while responding to the Sept. 11 attacks could receive up to 10 percent of their clients' compensation, but no more, under a plan to reopen the compensation system.The plan is included in legislation that won approval in Congress last week, after supporters negotiated several changes with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
3 minute read
November 08, 2010 |

Parties Campaign Aggressively for Participation in 9/11 Pact

An unprecedented effort to persuade some 10,000 plaintiffs who responded to the World Trade Center terror attacks to accept a $712.5 million settlement of their respiratory illness claims is nearing the finish line. Firefighters, police and cleanup workers who toiled in the pit at Ground Zero face a filing deadline today to opt in to the settlement, and the lead plaintiffs' lawyer said last week that he expects to meet the 95 percent participation level required to make the settlement effective.
11 minute read

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