Posted on 02/12/2010 3:39:42 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – The lead lawyer for thousands of Sept. 11 rescue and recovery workers has acknowledged that in preparing some claims, his firm made mistakes — including assertions that people had cancer when they didn't.
But the attorney, Paul Napoli, said the errors all occurred at preliminary stages of the case, are being corrected and won't have any bearing on the outcome. He characterized the mistakes as few and accidental, caused by a crushing workload and a rush to meet court deadlines.
"We are not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes," ..
Napoli's firm, Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern, is coordinating lawsuits filed by more than 9,000 police officers, firefighters and construction workers who say New York City and its contractors failed to protect them from toxic World Trade Center ash.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Trust us, we’re lawyers! Would we lie? Wait, don’t answer that.
But...but...but, the air was safe. I saw and heard Hillary tell us so.
The husband of my Tort Law instructor is working on this case. He gave a talk to us about it. Interesting and more complex than people know.
Tort reform
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