Posted on 06/19/2007 2:14:40 PM PDT by gpapa
The mother of a Sept. 11 victim is trying to prevent her son's absentee father from trying to collect half of the $2.9 million awarded by the Victim Compensation Fund, the Daily News has learned.
Elsie Goss-Caldwell will be petitioning a Brooklyn Surrogate's Court judge tomorrow to keep her ex-husband from financially benefiting from the death of a son that she said he had little contact with for 28 years.
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No, sounds like a legit question to me.
My thoughts exactly. Why were the victims families paid millions in tax-payer’s dollars? Don’t we buy life insurance to take care of our loved ones in the event of an untimely death?
I’d rather see the awards reduced and the difference go to our lost soldier’s families.
I don’t think they were given tax-payer money. I think it was from all of the donations after 9-11. I can’t say that for certain, but I know there were millions collected from donations.
Victims had to surrender their rights to civil damages be it that of airline companies( if they were negligent), etc. That is the quid pro quo.
Hell, I caught on fire. 30% 2nd and 3rd degree burns. I was out of work 6 months. All due to my drunk a$$ brother-in-law.
Can I get some $$.
Yes, actually, they were. Taxpayer money provided the fund and the federal government administered it.
It’s not a lot. You can aruge the pros and cons of the logic behind the Federal Government’s establishment of 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, but under the differential payout format base on estimate of lost future lifetime earning, $2.9 million is on the low end of the payout.
Remember the reasoning behind the establishment of the fund was basically to cushion the economic and legal claim shock to the affected companies and agencies, i.e. you forgo all futue financial claims against the City, State, Port Authority, Airlines, your compnay, your insurance company, the owners of the Twin Towers, etc. etc. by taking this one time payout from the fund.
Exactly. Imagine the costs to an Airline CO. if it was discovered that a particualr employee responsible for checking on plane luggage did not follow SOP at the time the plnaes were being boarded for example. Major liability exposure.
That was my reaction even back in 2001, that sad as the situation was, the “victims” still had a responsibility to have life insurance or other assets to provide for their families. It sounds unsympathetic, but it is more about people taking responsibility for their own outcomes, and not expecting the government (aka, we taxpayers) to come to the rescue.
The fund was over $ 7 billion of TAXPAYER money.
September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, which was established by the federal government to provide compensation to victims’ families for lost wages, pain and suffering, and other monetary damages.
http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2007/03/05/feinberg
No, it's a good question. That is quite a bit of money paid out by the government(taxpayers???)to one victim's family. I hope she prevails in court, however.
Which reminds me to start looking into some burial insurance...
It was an astounding amount of money, only surpassed by the money people donated for Katrina people.
I’m trying to figure out where the money collected for the families of the victims of 9/11 went - I was hoping that much of it was given to firefighters’ and policemens’ families since the only compensation these brave men and women received were their “death in the line of duty” benefits.
Can someone point me to a web site where some accounting is made of this money. I know that the Red Cross and United Way tried to keep a huge chunk for themselves to use for all their other projects and got called on it.
Compensation Fund aside, what in the world would be the theory of liability against any of those entities?
Wait a minute. Why is the mom getting it instead of his kids???????? She had to pay back child support....so there were children.
See post #11. Same applies to port authority, etc. Negligence of an employeee is imputed to the employer.
Yeah, sure, from your drunk a$$ brother-in-law.
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