What Is Life Worth?: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and Its Effort to Compensate the Victims of September 11th
Autor Kenneth R. Feinbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2006
Just
days
after
September
11,
2001,
Kenneth
Feinberg
was
appointed
to
administer
the
federal
9/11
Victim
Compensation
Fund,
a
unique,
unprecedented
fund
established
by
Congress
to
compensate
families
who
lost
a
loved
one
on
9/11
and
survivors
who
were
physically
injured
in
the
attacks.
Those
who
participated
in
the
Fund
were
required
to
waive
their
right
to
sue
the
airlines
involved
in
the
attacks,
as
well
as
other
potentially
responsible
entities.
When
the
program
was
launched,
many
families
criticized
it
as
a
brazen,
tight-fisted
attempt
to
protect
the
airlines
from
lawsuits.
The
Fund
was
also
attacked
as
attempting
to
put
insulting
dollar
values
on
the
lives
of
lost
loved
ones.
The
families
were
in
pain.
And
they
were
angry.
Over
the
course
of
the
next
three
years,
Feinberg
spent
almost
all
of
his
time
meeting
with
the
families,
convincing
them
of
the
generosity
and
compassion
of
the
program,
and
calculating
appropriate
awards
for
each
and
every
claim.
The
Fund
proved
to
be
a
dramatic
success
with
over
97%
of
eligible
families
participating.
It
also
provided
important
lessons
for
Feinberg,
who
became
the
filter,
the
arbitrator,
and
the
target
of
family
suffering.
Feinberg
learned
about
the
enduring
power
of
family
grief,
love,
fear,
faith,
frustration,
and
courage.
Most
importantly,
he
learned
that
no
check,
no
matter
how
large,
could
make
the
families
and
victims
of
9/11
whole
again.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781586484514
ISBN-10: 1586484516
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 143 x 219 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1586484516
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 143 x 219 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Kenneth
R.
Feinberg,
one
of
the
nation's
leading
lawyers,
has
been
front
and
center
in
some
of
the
most
complex
public
legal
disputes
of
the
past
three
decades:
Agent
Orange,
asbestos,
the
closing
of
the
Shoreham
Nuclear
Plant,
and
now,
9/11.
A
former
prosecutor
and
member
of
two
Presidential
Commissions,
he
is
also
adjunct
Professor
of
Law
at
Georgetown
University,
the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
Columbia
University,
and
New
York
University.