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What is Life Worth?
Kenneth R. Feinberg
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Description for What is Life Worth?
Paperback. As head of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Kenneth Feinberg was asked to do the impossible: calculate the dollar value of over 5,000 dead and injured as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JKSN1; JPQB; JPWL2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a unique, unprecedented fund established by Congress to compensate families who lost a loved one on 9/11 and survivors who were physically injured in the attacks. Those who participated in the Fund were required to waive their right to sue the airlines involved in the attacks, as well as other potentially responsible entities. When the program was launched, many families criticized it as a brazen, tight-fisted attempt to protect the airlines from lawsuits. The Fund was also attacked as attempting to put ... Read more
Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a unique, unprecedented fund established by Congress to compensate families who lost a loved one on 9/11 and survivors who were physically injured in the attacks. Those who participated in the Fund were required to waive their right to sue the airlines involved in the attacks, as well as other potentially responsible entities. When the program was launched, many families criticized it as a brazen, tight-fisted attempt to protect the airlines from lawsuits. The Fund was also attacked as attempting to put ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586484514
SKU
V9781586484514
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About Kenneth R. Feinberg
Kenneth R. Feinberg, one of the nation's leading lawyers, has been front and centre in some of the most complex public legal disputes of the past three decades: Agent Orange, asbestos, the closing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, and now, 9/11. A former prosecutor and member of two Presidential Commissions, he is also adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, ... Read more
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