Topic: Alvin Hellerstein

Settlement reached on eve of September 11 airline trial

NEW YORK (Reuters) - What could have been the only wrongful death trial stemming from the September 11, 2001, attacks ended on Monday after the two sides reached a settlement.The 2002 lawsuit, filed by the mother of Mark Bavis who died when ...

Factbox: The state of September 11 litigation

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A decade after the September 11 attacks a growing number of rescue workers and first responders are suffering from various illnesses that they ascribe to their exposure to toxins near the disaster sites.The volume of litigation generated by ...

Why U.S. inside traders escape harsh sentences

NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters Legal) - The recent flurry of insider-trading arrests by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney has set Wall Street on edge. But if recent history is any guide, people found guilty of that crime tend to get off relatively ...
Judge reaches out to holdouts in 9/11 health lawsuit, offers them 1 last chance to settleThe federal judge overseeing a major legal settlement for thousands of ground zero workers exposed to World Trade Center dust says he wants to give a ...

Last chance for 9/11 responders' lawsuits

The judge overseeing the World Trade Center settlement is threatening to toss more than 200 lawsuits filed by Ground Zero workers who didn't opt in...
The long, expensive, emotionally racking lawsuits filed by more than 10,000 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have come to an end, as...

The bird in the hand

The Forgotten Victims of 9/11 are approaching the deadline for deciding whether to accept a settlement offer in lawsuits against the city, Port...

Worth-less lawyers

Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein got to the heart of the trouble with the proposed $712 million World Trade Center lawsuit settlements at...

Law firm's WTC money grab KOd

The judge overseeing a Ground Zero settlement deal slapped a law firm for trying to recover $6.1 million in borrowing costs from the sickened...

Editorial: Show them the money

The judge overseeing the World Trade Center lawsuits is pressing the lawyers who brought the cases to give a full accounting of their expenses. Way...