People – get some proof you were harmed by this before getting a lawyer. Just because there was smoke doesn’t mean you were exposed to enough bad-nasties to make you sick.
funny how they are now suing for exposure due to the tower fm 9/11 and yet, they shud be suing the terrorists…why shud uncle sam pay for that exposure? why shud the city of ny, pay for that exposure? again, just a lot of money hungry folks, and i hope that the judges throw those cases out of court…
so we don’t sue for exposure to the carbon monoxide from the cars! why do we sue for this? CRAZY! in fact, whom is going to make money – -the lawyers, whether they win or not!
Any neighbor has the right to be worried and should be worried. In fact, the Government appears to be worried too as is evident by the “hundreds of air samples from a dozen monitors posted around the building before, during and after the fire”. And those test “haven’t shown contamination that exceeds federal limits”. And “More than 300 tests for asbestos have been negative, according to private analysts”. Stop worrying.
If these people had any brains, they’d have moved the afternoon of 9/11/01 never returned. If they stayed there from 9/11/01 until 8/17/07 I doubt there’s anything additional to worry about. Inhaling a few more months of toxic crap isn’t going to make a difference. Some people in lower Manhattan continue to refuse to move, even at their own peril. 9/11/01 happened people……..get real.
but, u wud have to prove exposure cause by that site. if they have these monitors up and nothing shows, then whose to believe? if the local government had in place, then there will be no liability of there are no signs otherwise. it another matter when folks are just looking for reasons to sue for money….
When you pay ridiculous amounts of money in taxes… to the city…. and state…. and federal government, you expect them to do their job…which includes protecting the public… they should be held liable… they failed to protect the people
as been proven, the government can’t protect us all 100% of the time…and therefore shud not be liable for that!…wake up folks…this is a dead end issue…the only fools running are the lawyers whom are getting money for the fools willing to have them pay for services and a lawsuit that will be dismissed…and that leaves the folks empty handed while handing money to the lawyer for even trying the attempt the case.
I might be sick: I don’t feel sick and I don’t have any symptoms, but until I check with my lawyer, I don’t know if I’m sick.
It appears that the terms “reasonably foreseeable” or “knew or should have known” ought to be applicable to this situation. Who are you gonna sue anyway? The builders of these buildings? The architects? The owners? Each tradesman who worked on the buildings? The city in which the building is located and who presumably had the building codes in place to “protect” us from the buildings? The firemen who tried to put out the fires? I know. This is America…let’s just sue everyone. Someone will pony up some $$.
I work in lower Manhattan and actually handled several WTC claims. I was shocked at the attitude of some locals over the pollution issue. They seem to think that while the rest of the world changes, they don’t have to. They had two concerns. The first was, we want to stay in our apartments no matter what and somebody else should wave a magic wand and cleanse the air. The second was arguing over what kind of memorial to build. These people need to wake up and realize it isn’t their father’s New York and that like it or not, they live in the middle of one of the largest terrorist targets in the world.
All of you, from lastbat to himself, seem to have gotten the wrong message here. In your zeal to demonize attorneys and litigantsb you miss the point.
The point here is not anyone suing anyone but that the residents in the area are justifiably worried about the quality of the air they breathe. In the aftermath of 9/11, they were told by the then Secretary of the Environment Chrtie Whitman, that the air was safe. It has since been shown that that was a patently false statement from teh Bush adminstration intended to minimize the impact of the situation at ground zero.
All these people are asking for now is the ability to breathe clean, safe air.
People – get some proof you were harmed by this before getting a lawyer. Just because there was smoke doesn’t mean you were exposed to enough bad-nasties to make you sick.
um…um…
funny how they are now suing for exposure due to the tower fm 9/11 and yet, they shud be suing the terrorists…why shud uncle sam pay for that exposure? why shud the city of ny, pay for that exposure? again, just a lot of money hungry folks, and i hope that the judges throw those cases out of court…
so we don’t sue for exposure to the carbon monoxide from the cars! why do we sue for this? CRAZY! in fact, whom is going to make money – -the lawyers, whether they win or not!
Oh wudchuck you are a (little) voice of reason in this vast sea of chaos….
Any neighbor has the right to be worried and should be worried. In fact, the Government appears to be worried too as is evident by the “hundreds of air samples from a dozen monitors posted around the building before, during and after the fire”. And those test “haven’t shown contamination that exceeds federal limits”. And “More than 300 tests for asbestos have been negative, according to private analysts”. Stop worrying.
If these people had any brains, they’d have moved the afternoon of 9/11/01 never returned. If they stayed there from 9/11/01 until 8/17/07 I doubt there’s anything additional to worry about. Inhaling a few more months of toxic crap isn’t going to make a difference. Some people in lower Manhattan continue to refuse to move, even at their own peril. 9/11/01 happened people……..get real.
but, u wud have to prove exposure cause by that site. if they have these monitors up and nothing shows, then whose to believe? if the local government had in place, then there will be no liability of there are no signs otherwise. it another matter when folks are just looking for reasons to sue for money….
When you pay ridiculous amounts of money in taxes… to the city…. and state…. and federal government, you expect them to do their job…which includes protecting the public… they should be held liable… they failed to protect the people
as been proven, the government can’t protect us all 100% of the time…and therefore shud not be liable for that!…wake up folks…this is a dead end issue…the only fools running are the lawyers whom are getting money for the fools willing to have them pay for services and a lawsuit that will be dismissed…and that leaves the folks empty handed while handing money to the lawyer for even trying the attempt the case.
I wonder how many of those who are worried about “dust exposure” are smokers?
Just curious.
~evil grin~
I might be sick: I don’t feel sick and I don’t have any symptoms, but until I check with my lawyer, I don’t know if I’m sick.
It appears that the terms “reasonably foreseeable” or “knew or should have known” ought to be applicable to this situation. Who are you gonna sue anyway? The builders of these buildings? The architects? The owners? Each tradesman who worked on the buildings? The city in which the building is located and who presumably had the building codes in place to “protect” us from the buildings? The firemen who tried to put out the fires? I know. This is America…let’s just sue everyone. Someone will pony up some $$.
I work in lower Manhattan and actually handled several WTC claims. I was shocked at the attitude of some locals over the pollution issue. They seem to think that while the rest of the world changes, they don’t have to. They had two concerns. The first was, we want to stay in our apartments no matter what and somebody else should wave a magic wand and cleanse the air. The second was arguing over what kind of memorial to build. These people need to wake up and realize it isn’t their father’s New York and that like it or not, they live in the middle of one of the largest terrorist targets in the world.
All of you, from lastbat to himself, seem to have gotten the wrong message here. In your zeal to demonize attorneys and litigantsb you miss the point.
The point here is not anyone suing anyone but that the residents in the area are justifiably worried about the quality of the air they breathe. In the aftermath of 9/11, they were told by the then Secretary of the Environment Chrtie Whitman, that the air was safe. It has since been shown that that was a patently false statement from teh Bush adminstration intended to minimize the impact of the situation at ground zero.
All these people are asking for now is the ability to breathe clean, safe air.