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Hundreds who suffer from working on WTC cleanup join class action lawsuit

Shouldn't that have been the responsibility of the contractors who were in charge of cleanup, not the landowners?

Freaking stupid, IMO.
 
Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Shouldn't that have been the responsibility of the contractors who were in charge of cleanup, not the landowners?
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I agree, but don't most lawsuits go after the party with the most money first?

 
""Today I am here to tell you, we need a new rescue and recovery effort," said lawyer David Worby. "We need to set up a medical testing fund to help these people. They were all our WTC heroes then, and now they're our WTC victims. People are going to die of cancer. People are going to die of respiratory problems." "

BARF!!!!!!!!
 
On a related note, I'll let off a small rant in here:
I just listened to a story on NPR about how they need to engineer evacuation procedures to, basically, account for human stupidity. They had interviewed a woman who was in the World Trade Center when it was hit... she was in the 2nd tower to be hit. Summary: plane hit the first tower... ***evacuation alarms go off*** she left the building, leaving her purse and everything behind. Some of her coworkers couldn't be bothered to leave the building... their meetings were more important. Her coworkers died.

Now... I feel horrible that all the people died who did. Nonetheless, how f'in stupid can you be? You've got a warped sense of priorities if you feel your job is more important than your own safety. Alarm goes off - you exit. That should be the end of it. ESPECIALLY when there's smoke and fire pouring out of the adjacent building. The one thing that sums it up for me is greed. They were greedy... wanted to get ahead in the corporate world. Then, their relatives were greedy... give me more hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I hope I'm wrong, or that perhaps the story was slanted somewhat...
 
I dunno about that NPR story but I can tell you for sure that if my building were burning down, at least 10 people would continue working thinking it's a false alarm that doesn't apply to them because they are too important.

As for this, I think that they are perfectly right to sue. I think that it may even have been an intentional thing due to political pressure to make new yorkers feel safe. It's the job of a professional company to know these things even if no one told them.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
On a related note, I'll let off a small rant in here:
I just listened to a story on NPR about how they need to engineer evacuation procedures to, basically, account for human stupidity. They had interviewed a woman who was in the World Trade Center when it was hit... she was in the 2nd tower to be hit. Summary: plane hit the first tower... ***evacuation alarms go off*** she left the building, leaving her purse and everything behind. Some of her coworkers couldn't be bothered to leave the building... their meetings were more important. Her coworkers died.

Now... I feel horrible that all the people died who did. Nonetheless, how f'in stupid can you be? You've got a warped sense of priorities if you feel your job is more important than your own safety. Alarm goes off - you exit. That should be the end of it. ESPECIALLY when there's smoke and fire pouring out of the adjacent building. The one thing that sums it up for me is greed. They were greedy... wanted to get ahead in the corporate world. Then, their relatives were greedy... give me more hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I hope I'm wrong, or that perhaps the story was slanted somewhat...
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that is a rather bold and ignorant assumption. many people died in that event because they were misinformed not because of greed
 
What is the alternative? Just let the company get away with gross negligence and foot their own health care bills?
 
Originally posted by: toekramp
Originally posted by: DrPizza
On a related note, I'll let off a small rant in here:
I just listened to a story on NPR about how they need to engineer evacuation procedures to, basically, account for human stupidity. They had interviewed a woman who was in the World Trade Center when it was hit... she was in the 2nd tower to be hit. Summary: plane hit the first tower... ***evacuation alarms go off*** she left the building, leaving her purse and everything behind. Some of her coworkers couldn't be bothered to leave the building... their meetings were more important. Her coworkers died.

Now... I feel horrible that all the people died who did. Nonetheless, how f'in stupid can you be? You've got a warped sense of priorities if you feel your job is more important than your own safety. Alarm goes off - you exit. That should be the end of it. ESPECIALLY when there's smoke and fire pouring out of the adjacent building. The one thing that sums it up for me is greed. They were greedy... wanted to get ahead in the corporate world. Then, their relatives were greedy... give me more hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I hope I'm wrong, or that perhaps the story was slanted somewhat...
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that is a rather bold and ignorant assumption. many people died in that event because they were misinformed not because of greed
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I don't think Dr. Pizza's statement was a blanket statement. It was a statement in regards to the people who knew about the alarm because they heard it - and then failed to evacuate. However, for those who were not informed or even misinformed, I feel sorry for those people who lost their lives.

I can't believe this class-action lawsuit. However, I guess it doesn't surprise me. These are civilians and they are going to sue to hopefully recover from some of the damages they suffered. Military personnel are prevented from suing the government - and several came back sick from Gulf War I. With regards to the World Trade Center cleanup, I wonder how many of those involved in the lawsuit were smokers? Plenty of their bad habits in the life prior to 9/11 could have also contributed to the ailments they are suffering.
 
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