Compensation Funds:
Are They Enough?
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Sponsored by: Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, ABA Journal, and ABA-CLE
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The World Trade Center Compensation Fund was established shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, in an effort to provide a vehicle to expeditiously process claims by families of victims in the towers and the airplanes that crashed into them. The Fund turned into perhaps the most successful disaster funding program ever used in the United States. Why did it succeed and how did results for those who used the fund compare to recoveries for parties that chose to pursue individual claims? Perhaps most important, does the WTC Compensation Fund provide a blueprint for compensation schemes that might be used to process claims from other incidents of mass injury?
Duration: 60 minutes
Credit Hours: 1.0 Hours in a 60-Minute State, 1.2 Hours in a 50-Minute State
Recorded from a live program on September 19, 2007
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