Concurring Opinions » Victim compensation: different visions for different victims:
by Prof. Julie Goldscheid
"This month’s deadline for filing claims with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (the “Fund”), has caused me to review how victim compensation has evolved since Congress created the Fund in 2001, in response to the World Trade Center attacks. The Fund responded to widespread sympathy toward survivors and surviving family members, and provided compensation for economic and non-economic losses resulting from the attacks, in return for waiver of the right to sue for damages. By 2004, when the original Fund closed, it had paid over $7.049 billion (in public funds) to survivors of those who died in the attacks and to those who were injured in the attacks or the subsequent rescue efforts. In 2011, Congress reactivated the Fund and expanded its scope to cover additional injured persons and to provide medical treatment and monitoring for 9/11-related health conditions.
The combination of government-supported and philanthropic resources available to survivors of the 9/11 contrasts sharply with the resources available to survivors of other crimes. "
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