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 11:20 PM September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 SENT: January 14, 2002 20:44 SUBJECT: Concerns over victim compensation fund Dear Mr. Kenneth Feinberg, I am writing to you to express my concerns over the "Victim Compensation Fund". Based on the current format of the distribution of the funds to the survivors, they will be recieving minimal or no compensation from the federal government. It appears that the guidelines of the fund takes whatever possible measures to reduce the amount of compensation awarded to the victims' families. The fund designed to compensate the familes of the victims, fails to take an adequate account for non-economical losses. Many families of victims award's are offset by the collateral source reduction. If the total amount of collateral that victims recieve is greater than the toal award of the economic losses than the award for non-economic loss, which is understood to be 250,000 is deducted. This is where my great concern arises. I strongly urge you to increase the non-economic damages to 1 million for all families. This fund was designed to compensate families for economic losses as well as non-economic losses such as pain and suffering, money under the current format families will not see. Many families are not being compensated for pain and suffering and would rather turn to the courts to get a fair compensation for non-economic losses, such as the loss of the enjoyment of life. If the Bill pays awards next to nothing for the families, it is basically leaving them with no other choice, than to pursue in a long drawn out case against the Airlines to adequately compensate for pain and suffering. This would do exactly what the Bill was designed to prevent. If there was an increase in the award for non-economical losses to adequately compensate fro pain and suffering it would probably please many families and save them a long process of litigation in the courts. Additionally, I believe that it is only fair and equitable that families have the right to be fully informed of their compensation prior to officially waving their right to litigate. Anything else is simply unjust and beneficial to the Airlines and the Federal Government. I hope you can realize that the problems of the Bill that limits many families of their proper award and be able to make ammendments that benefit the victims as opposed to the airlines. Any help would be truly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Individual Comment Town of Cromwell, CT 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 dojN001604.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