Miscellaneous

9/11 dust

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

Ramon Gilsanz, a structural engineer with a small office in Manhattan, showed up at the World Trade Center site to pitch in after the disaster; like many others, he started as a volunteer and found his role evolving into a subcontractor at the city's request. Now, like about 130 other structural engineers, he is named in many of 8,000 lawsuits filed by the Paul Napoli firm and others over dust exposure to various bystanders. He and another structural engineer said they worked alongside the other rescue and cleanup workers and were never assigned responsibility for air quality. (Jim Dwyer, "For Engineer, a Cloud of Litigation After 9/11", New York Times, Feb. 23).

Full post as published by Overlawyered on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).