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More than 10,000 ground zero rescue and cleanup workers who settled lawsuits with New York City over damage to their health will share an extra $55 million in bonus payments but will not have to pay lawyers' fees on the increase, a federal judge has ruled. The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said in an order signed Thursday that because more than 99 percent of the workers had accepted the settlement, they were entitled to the extra money under the terms of the agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The federal judge overseeing the settlement between ground zero workers and the city over health issues told the plaintiffs' lawyers on Friday that they should absorb $6.1 million in legal expenses they had intended to pass on to their clients. The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, disallowed the charges at a hearing after rejecting lawyers' justifications for the expenses, which involved interest paid on loans that helped finance about $30 million in litigation costs. Those loans had been at interest rates of 14 percent to 18 percent, and would have reduced the workers' individual settlement amounts by from $78.23 to $2,300, on average. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The letter arrived on July 29. Four years after he filed a lawsuit, James Carrano learned how much compensation he was likely to receive for the stomach and respiratory problems he has lived with since he toiled in a dust cloud after 9/11: $60,000 to $80,000. That sum is his piece of a settlement of up to $712.5 million covering some 10,500 rescue and recovery workers who had sued New York City and its contractors over health issues after exposure to contaminants at ground zero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lawyers for the city and about 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who say their health was damaged at ground zero announced Thursday that they had negotiated a new, $712 million settlement to replace one that a federal judge rejected three months ago. The new pact drew a vigorous endorsement from the judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of United States District Court in Manhattan, who had said the previous one, amounting to $657 million, was too small. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over nearly three decades as a litigator at a downtown law firm, Alvin K. Hellerstein shared a view of the World Trade Center towers with dozens of other colleagues in an office building on Maiden Lane. Yet as a United States District Court judge in Manhattan, he has had a singular perspective on the towers -- specifically, the suffering that has lingered long after the terrorist attacks that leveled them in 2001. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The federal judge overseeing litigation between the city and workers at ground zero on Friday rejected a settlement, telling lawyers that it did not provide enough compensation to plaintiffs and needed to be renegotiated under his supervision. The decision by the judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of United States District Court in Manhattan, came in a hearing barely a week after the settlement was announced following more than six years of legal maneuvering. The settlement provided for payouts totaling $575 million to $657.5 million in cases filed by some 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who say they suffered health damages from toiling at ground zero after the 2001 terrorist attack. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sgt. Dawn Sorrento says she looks on the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a blur of doctor's visits, ambushes by illnesses she had never heard of and growing resentment toward the city that challenged her injury claims. Yet on Friday, Sergeant Sorrento, a police officer who is among some 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city for health damages, felt a grim sort of satisfaction. She had expected her case to be among the first to go to trial this spring; instead, both sides announced a legal settlement of up to $657.5 million Thursday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Profiles New York City Police Officer Daniel Rodriguez, whose rendition of 'God Bless America' at public events captured the patriotism of the U.S., grieving the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Reactions to his album 'The Spirit of America,' released since the attacks; Biographical information; Anticipation for voice and language training at the Villar/Domingo Young Artist Program for the Washington Opera, which Rodriguez was invited to by Plácido Domingo.

Focuses on several pregnant women whose husbands were killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center. Ordeal of Paulina del Carmen Cardona; Views of the women about how they are perceived by others; Comments of Jennifer Brennan, whose son was born six weeks after the attacks, and others; Idea that their grief tempers the joys of pregnancy; Concerns of the pregnant women, including worries that stress may affect their babies.

Reports that night life in New York City began regaining its footing a week after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

Reports on the undocumented missing victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.

Reports on the efforts of residents of suburbs and other communities to wait for family members who were reported missing in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States.

Provides information on several victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attack on World Trade Center in New York City.

Presents information on some of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in World Trade Center, New York City.

Presents information on some of the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.

Presents information on some of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

Profiles several victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

Provides information on several victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.

Profiles several victims of the terrorist attack in World Trade Center of New York City on September 11, 2001.

Profiles several victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City.

Considers the views of witnesses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.