Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Hundreds of construction workers are at the 16-acre site every day, and tourists snap thousands of photos of …
The 70,000 surviving firefighters, police officers and other first responders who raced to the World Trade Center after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 will be entitled to free monitoring and treatment for some 50 forms of cancer. The National …
New York’s top insurance regulator has directed insurers to detail payouts and reserves for claims in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in an effort to prompt settlement of the decade-old federal case. Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the Department of …
Call it compassionate, even political. But … scientific? Several experts say there’s no hard evidence to support the federal government’s declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust. The decision …
Planners say an 80-story skyscraper under construction at ground zero may have to stop at seven stories unless the developer can line up more tenants. Silverstein Properties said this week that it is still looking for tenants to fill the …
World Trade Center first responders who had high-level exposures to the initial dust cloud on Sept. 11, 2001, now have high-risk features of atherosclerosis (plaque in arteries), according to latest findings from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The researchers used …
Last week, New York State’s high court cleared Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of negligence claims in the 1993 World Trade Center parking garage bombing. The Sept. 22 ruling reverses lower courts’ decision. The Court of Appeals …
In tossing out a negligence lawsuit, a judge last Friday cited the “strange, improbable” events that destroyed a 47-story World Trade Center building a decade ago on Sept. 11, several hours after the 110-story twin towers fell. The claims by …
The din of rebuilding the World Trade Center is driving guests away from a prominent hotel overlooking ground zero, and the agency in charge hasn’t listened to requests to quell the noise, the hotel’s owner says in a lawsuit filed …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Bermuda-based PMG Assurance Ltd., both with stable outlooks. The ratings reflect PMG’s “excellent capitalization, historically strong operating performance and …
