No matter what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani thinks about the 25th anniversary of 9/11, he isn’t letting the event go to waste. This is revisionist history.
On Tuesday he released some 170,000 pages of city documents that he claims show that officials “lied” about the risks of toxic exposure.
The program compensates individuals for economic harm caused by their injuries, including lost earnings and medical costs if they can show they were present within a specified exposure zone between Sept. The program resembles the no-fault National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in that people can get government compensation for injuries if they agree not to sue. In 2010 Congress passed a law that provided medical treatment, health monitoring and financial compensation to first-responders and others exposed to toxins. 11, 2001, and May 30, 2002. They can also receive pain and suffering payouts, capped at $250,000 per cancer and $90,000 for other conditions.
Mamdani’s team flogged a 2001 city memo that estimated the city could face 35,000 potential plaintiffs from “toxic tort cases that might arise in the next few decades. Mr.
The memo says “a major concern is that if these cases make it to court, the judges and juries will be biased in favor of plaintiffs (even though the City seems to have a strong defense) and therefore, award substantial damages to compensate individuals for their loss.”
