World Trade Center News

Declarations

Racketeering “They willfully caused victims of Hurricane Katrina extreme emotional and financial distress in their calculated strategy to falsify and conceal evidence, intimidate anyone who got in their way, and used their privileged position to pressure policyholders into accepting pitiful …

Declarations

WTC fireproofing “One thing it does point out … is the absolute essential nature of fireproofing steel structures. This is something that wasn’t done originally in the World Trade Center when it was built. It wasn’t code at that time.” …

WTC fireproofing

Declarations “One thing it does point out … is the absolute essential nature of fireproofing steel structures. This is something that wasn’t done originally in the World Trade Center when it was built. It wasn’t code at that time.” — …

Declarations

Declarations Racketeering “They willfully caused victims of Hurricane Katrina extreme emotional and financial distress in their calculated strategy to falsify and conceal evidence, intimidate anyone who got in their way, and used their privileged position to pressure policyholders into accepting …

Ex-EPA Chief Whitman Defends Ground Zero Health Statements

Come clean, one lawmaker demanded of ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman. Tell us the truth about the health dangers in the air around ground zero, said another. Yet for three hours at a congressional hearing Monday — and for nearly six …

Judge: WTC Volunteer Fireman’s Family Entitled to Death Benefit

Rebuffing the government, a U.S. judge ruled that the family of a volunteer firefighter who died in the burning World Trade Center towers, is eligible for a death benefit given to public safety officers killed in the line of duty. …

Moore Film’s 9/11 Workers Denied Insurance, Sought Care in Cuba

Three ground zero workers who accompanied filmmaker Michael Moore on a trip to Cuba for medical treatment featured in his new movie “Sicko” charged they were targeted by the U.S. government because of their participation. “It’s ridiculous after what we …

WTC Attack Simulation Shows Fireproofing Material Stripped on Impact

A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency’s findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight. The two-year …

MarshMac blasts N.Y. Post over ad photography criticism

Marsh & McLennan Companies has vigorously defended its use of photographs in a recent ad campaign against the suggestion in a New York newspaper article that they contain images of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The risk …

MarshMac blasts N.Y. Post over ad photography criticism

Marsh & McLennan Companies has vigorously defended its use of photographs in a recent ad campaign against the suggestion in a New York newspaper article that they contain images of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The risk …