9/11 Health Trial Settlement To Be Renegotiated For Ground Zero Workers

New York Daily News:

A Manhattan judge Friday ordered the city and lawyers for ailing Ground Zero heroes to renegotiate a settlement that would pay the stricken workers at least $575 million.

Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the deal pays the workers too little - and their lawyers too much.

Read the whole story: New York Daily News

Comments

[Peter007]

08:28 AM on 03/22/2010

This is a deep pockets case. The money is coming from the Federal Government and New York will take any money , anytime, paid out to anyone in New York. Politics.

[foxisms]

04:09 PM on 03/20/2010

The settlement could have been awarded as is and another for more on other grounds could have been initiated.
In the mean time...these people will do without while the Judge comes off like Robin Hood.
Words won't pay for a respirator, or the lives of the people who will expire between now and the next opportunity someone can renegotiate, rebuild and bring this suit before the courts.
In every way, this was a "left handed" to those who without a moments notice came to the aid of their fellow Americans in a toxic environment that was less than truthfully revealed to be so.

[iceage7]

06:19 PM on 03/20/2010

The judge is right..Once the victims sign on to it thats it..a deal is a deal.

[foxisms]

08:06 PM on 03/20/2010

Ask the people who filed the suit.
The settlement could have been awarded as is and another (suit) on other grounds could have been initiated.
Or, the judge could have set the damages.
We've seen it before.

[mollybeejay]

07:59 AM on 03/22/2010

I agree with the judge. 200 million to the lawyers is much , uch too high. The plaintiffs will get the money. They deserve it. The lawyers, not so much.

[baba2nde]

01:04 PM on 03/20/2010

Aye, aye, Judge Hellerstein.