Participants in 9/11 First Responder Cases Express Relief Over Settlement of Complex Litigation
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."
