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. Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:34 AM Victims' comprnsation and tort reform. Attachment 1: Dear Kenneth R. Feinberg, On September 12, 2001, while firefifgters and others in stunned disbelief descended on the World Trade Center, airline executives and their lobbyists descended on Congress in an effort to save their industry. The problem was; an industry already hit by recession was about to go under. Four aircraft were used as weapons of destruction and the airlines were partially to blame. Lawsuits would cripple them. Congress acted quickly. In ten days legislation was passed that would save the airline industry. The Congress, our Senators and Representatives, crafted in the same instrument provisions that would compensate victims and their families and promote tort reform. Tort reform? What has that got to do with anything? Just this. Past damages for negligent behavior set by citizens in courts of law were getting a little high. Some say the damages were downright excessive and that tort reform is long overdue. High insurance premiums based on $2,700,000 per airline victim were impacting the bottom line. Those same citizens who were so imprudent in the past would not be compensating victims here. They were excluded from the process and access to them thwarted. In their place a special master was appointed to administer rules set by Congress that would limit what victims and their families could recover. In addition, offsets were incorporated into the victims' compensation to further control costs. Precedents could be set here that would influence judgements for damages well into the future. Or course, the victims and their families could always sue the airlines. Congress thought of that also and capped what they could recover. And we thought it was about compassion. It's about tort reform and saving the airlines at minimum cost. And never forget that. FDNY Retired Individual Comment Mountain Lakes, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-20 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 dojP000534.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. 2002-02-20