Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has chosen Allison Turkel to head the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF). Turkel, who has served in the Justice Department for more than 14 years, most recently in the Office for Victims of Crime, …
For a few long minutes on the morning of September 11, 2001, I believed I might die. I remember thinking, “These bastard terrorists are going to get me, too.” An insurance colleague at AIG had come into my office at …
‘I WAS A WALKING ZOMBIE’ Desiree Bouchat pauses by one of the inscribed names on the 9/11 memorial: James Patrick Berger. She last saw him on the 101st floor of the trade center’s south tower. “Some days, it feels like …
“What is life worth?” asks Washington lawyer Kenneth J. Feinberg (Michael Keaton) in the opening scenes of the based-on-a-true-story drama “Worth,” while writing the question on a blackboard for a room full of law school students. To Feinberg, it’s not …
Real estate developer Larry Silverstein was denied the right to seek $3.5 billion from airlines whose planes were hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center’s twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein …
