Settlement Reached to Pay Ground Zero Workers $657.5 Million

It's about time.

A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the
cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground
zero who sued the city over damage to their health, city
officials said.

They said 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.

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