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More Than 10K Settle Suits Over Ground Zero Dust

Just 500 refused settlement offer

By the Associated Press

Posted Nov 19, 2010 12:42 PM CST

(AP) – More than 10,000 people have joined a legal settlement that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Ground Zero workers exposed to toxic World Trade Center dust. The near-universal acceptance of the deal was announced by a court today. It will mean an end to most litigation over New York City's failure to provide protective equipment to construction workers, police, and firefighters who cleared rubble.

Only around 500 of the thousands who sued the city over the cleanup declined to take the offer. At least 95% had to sign on to make the deal effective. It cleared that hurdle, barely, with 95.1%. The settlement will provide at least $625 million. Related deals could boost that total to more than $725 million.

In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York.
In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York.   (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool, File)
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Disillusioned
Nov 20, 2010 10:08 PM CST
There was a time in this f*cked up country people came together and helped without their hand held out but those days are gone and so is common decency They did not worry about being injured, it came with the territory and not a soul paid it any attention. In my younger years we would drive to South Louisiana and help victims of hurricanes as well as most of the coastal cities and never expected anything other than a meal from the Red Cross who were the only ones with stoves that worked and this did not happen just once it happened each year. Of a Tornado would hit the mid west many of us again would saddle up and form caravans to go and pitch in. Snakes, gators, dangerous work areas were things we endured to help brother and sister Americans but no more it seems do people feel that tie and connection I dearly miss what was once a great country where we knew we could count on each other and that was because people knew they could count on each other in hard times. I often wonder where and when that all changed Now they see a woman being raped on the street the only reason they would stop is to video the crime on their cell phone so they can be the first to post the crime on youtube This country deserves the daily a$$f*cking it gets from the rest of the world if this is what we are destined to become

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