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$712 Million Settlement Reached for Sick Ground Zero Workers

HeadlineJun 11, 2010

The City of New York has reached a new settlement with around 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who were exposed to dangerous toxic chemicals at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks. Under the deal, the city will pay out up to $712 million. Individual workers must decide now whether to accept the settlement or wait for a federal bill that could reopen the the 9/11 victim compensation fund to cleanup workers who got sick.

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