What Is Life Worth?: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and Its Effort to Compensate the Victims of September 11th

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Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was once appointed to administer the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a unique, unprecedented fund established by Congress to compensate families who lost a loved one on 9/11 and survivors who were physically injured in the attacks. Those who participated in the Fund were required to waive their right to sue the airlines involved in the attacks, in addition to other potentially responsible entities. When the program was once launched, many families criticized it as a brazen, tight-fisted attempt to give protection to the airlines from lawsuits. The Fund was once also attacked as making an attempt to put insulting dollar values at the lives of lost loved ones. The families were in pain. They usually were offended.

Over the course of the next three years, Feinberg spent almost all of his time meeting with the families, convincing them of the generosity and compassion of the program, and calculating appropriate awards for each claim. The Fund proved to be a dramatic success with over 97% of eligible families participating. It also provided important lessons for Feinberg, who became the filter, the arbitrator, and the target of circle of relatives suffering. Feinberg learned about the enduring power of circle of relatives grief, love, fear, faith, frustration, and courage. Most importantly, he learned that no check, no matter how large, could make the families and sufferers of 9/11 whole again.

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