Friday, March 12, 2010

3/12/10 - National News

Workers at Ground Zero 
Sue the City of New York


Read this article and answer these three questions in the comment section:

1.  Why are the workers suing the city of New York?

2.  How much is the settlement worth?

3.  What type of illnesses were most often reported by Ground Zero workers?



12 comments:

  1. 1. Damnage to their health

    2. $657.5

    3. plaintiff’s illness

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  2. They sued the city over damage to their health. The settlement would vary from thousands of dollars to one million dollars. Most commonly asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

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  3. The workers of ground zero are suing the city of new york becuase of there health.
    This settlment is worth 657.7 million dollars
    The main type of illness is respitory illness.

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  4. 1. health reasons related to the citys managment of the aftermath

    2. 657.7 milloin

    3. asmatha...respatory problems

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  5. 1.Damage to their health
    2.657.5 million dollars
    3.Asthma

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  6. 1. For getting sickness from removing debris at ground zero after the attacks.

    2. 675.5 million

    3. Asthma and other respiratory illnesses

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  7. 1: The workers are sueing New york for damage to there health and that they suffered at ground zero.
    2: The settlement was worth 657.5 million dollars but it could shink to 575 million dollars.
    3: They were inhaling to much containinets from the reckage

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  8. 1.Damaging their health
    2. A thousand to a million dollars
    3. Asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

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  9. 1.They wanted the settlement for 657.5 million dollars for the clean up and rescues and health of everyone.
    2.657.5 million dollars
    3.ashma and other resporatory illnesses from breathing the bad toxins of the site

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  10. a settlement up to 657.5 million dollars has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and clean up the workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials and lawyers for the plaintiffs.

    They said that the settlement would compensate about 10,000 plaintiffs according to the severity of their illnesses and the level of their exposure to contaminants at the World Trade Center site. the end

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  11. 1. Damage to their help.
    2. $657.5
    3. Respiratory Illnesses

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  12. The workers are sueing because there sick of getting injured. The settlement is work 657 mil.5 mil. Most of the workers suffered from asthma.

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