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Article: THOUSANDS FILE WITH 9/11 VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND BY DEADLINE.
- Article from:
- Liability & Insurance Week
- Article date:
- January 5, 2004
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By the time the clock struck midnight Dec. 22 - the deadline for filing a claim with the federal Victim Compensation Fund for injuries or deaths resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - 97 per cent, or 2,887 of the 2,976 families eligible to file death claims, had done so.
Just three weeks earlier, less than 60 per cent of these families had filed.
At the beginning of December, about 2,000 of those injured in the attacks had filed their claims.
By the deadline, the Fund had received 4,185 injury claims.
As of Dec. 31, the Fund had received a total of 7,128 death and injury claims postmarked before Dec. 23, the deadline set by ...