Panel: Sept. 11 Cleanup Workers Prior Settlement Precludes Recovery In Labor Lawsuit

Mealey's (September 29, 2020, 1:28 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Sept. 28 that a 2010 settlement between a captive insurer, its insured and 124 workers who helped clean up a New York high school following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks reduced the workers' potential recovery in their present New York labor law lawsuit to zero, affirming a lower federal court's dismissal of their action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction (In re:  World Trade Center Lower Manhattan Disaster Site Litigation, No. 19-2934, 2nd Cir.)....