Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Monday, January 14, 2002 6:27 PM Re: Flight 93 Victim-Comment on Interim Regulations for 9/11 Victim Compensation Our firm represents the widow of a passenger who died on United Airlines flight 93. We object to the provisions of section 104.47(a) of your Interim Regulations to the extent that section treats proceeds of privately paid for life insurance as "collateral source compensation" as a reduction to the amount of compensation available to eligible claimants under the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. The claimant and her deceased husband paid all of the premiums for their private insurance policy coverage in a financially prudent manner over the life of these policies. They should not be penalized for doing so in regard to participation in the 9/11 Fund, as compared to other victims who were not so financially responsible prior to 9/11 , and who did not pay for such insurance, but who end up being covered by the Fund for failing to do so. Furthermore, the inclusion of this provision in the Regulations acts as a disincentive for insured victims' surviving spouses and dependents to waive their private litigation claims and participate in the Fund. Instead, this provision promotes private litigation alternatives, which quickly become more attractive than waiver of those litigation rights by participation in the Victims Fund program. As one of the objectives of this program is to eliminate or reduce a plethora of private litigation, this provision should be removed to restore a broad incentive to participate in this Fund. Finally, the tort laws generally applicable in these private litigation situations do not require plaintiffs to reduce their claims by the amount of private insurance received by them. Your regulations should be consistent with those principles of normal tort law. As an alternative to eliminating this reduction for private insurance proceeds, if that is not agreeable to you, you should definitely have an attractive significant minimum sum which a surviving spouse and each eligible dependent of a victim can receive by Fund participation, which is not to be reduced by any "collateral source compensation" which may also be available to victims' spouses and dependents. Individual Comment Palo Alto, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN001600.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-14