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Article: Implementing the 9/11 victim compensation fund: two steps forward, one step back: while the statute establishing the fund seeks full compensation for victims, the regulations are subject to challenge for failing that mandate in some respects.
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- Defense Counsel Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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ON September 22, 2001, just 11 days after the deadly and devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the President of the United States signed into law H.R. 2926, the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (ATSSSA). (1) In Title IV of ATSSSA, which created the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, the federal government chose a curious tort model to assist the individual victims and their families. It could have selected other paths, such low interest or no-interest loans or transitional assistance programs parroting some state based unemployment compensation or workers' compensation programs.
But it did not. ...