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Plaintiffs Lawyers for 9/11 Workers Make Deal Over Cost Sharing

Source: Law.com – Newswire
Lawyers representing most of the more than 10,000 plaintiffs suing New York City and its contractors for illnesses resulting from the response and cleanup after the 9/11 terror attacks have patched up their differences over sharing costs. Plaintiffs firms Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo and Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern were set to square off at a hearing Wednesday, but instead submitted a stipulation to the federal judge presiding over a still-to-be-finalized $712.5 million settlement in the cases.
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