$657 million to 10k First-Responders

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Twitter BNO: Update: NYC to pay $657 million to settle 10,000 lawsuits claiming ground zero dust sickened first responders -- AP

(AP) – New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust. The settlement was announced tonight by the WTC Captive Insurance Company, a special entity established to indemnify the city and its contractors against potential legal action as they moved to clean up the site.

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that's 65,700 for each lawsuit, assuming they were divided evenly. Take about 35% of that for attorney's fees across the board, and that leaves about $ 44,019 each suit.

And that's probably not enough to cover a few visits to the hospital for many of these people, who are lying on their deathbed.

Just great, huh?

[edit on Thu Mar 11th 2010 by TrueAmerican]

Originally posted by TrueAmerican

(AP) – New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust. The settlement was announced tonight by the WTC Captive Insurance Company, a special entity established to indemnify the city and its contractors against potential legal action as they moved to clean up the site.

www.newser.com...

Seams like a lot of money to settle on a lawsuit and have one paragraph of information? Would like to know a bit more.