Risk And Insurance - In-Depth Series

Breach of Trust: World Trade Center In-Depth Series

Series Summary
Here begins the Risk & Insurance in-depth series on how Sept. 11 forever altered the workers' comp landscape and eroded the trust implicit between employer and employee.

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Past Installments

World Trade Center In-Depth Series (Part 1): Up in Smoke
2007-09-01

By Peter Rousmaniere

How safety procedures evaporated during the cleanup of the World Trade Center and how it is now affecting thousands of workers and public employees.

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World Trade Center In-Depth Series (Part 2): The Disease Within
2007-10-01

By Peter Rousmaniere

Disasters like Sept. 11 create hundreds of disease claims, but workers' comp systems are structured to reject these claims. Rescue, recovery and cleanup workers stand little chance of seeing a dime in compensation.

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World Trade Center In-Depth Series (Part 3): Peeling a Sour Apple
2007-10-15

By Peter Rousmaniere

It is a tortuous and bitter challenge to figure out who will have to pay for the health effects that World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup workers have experienced since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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World Trade Center In-Depth Series (Part 4): Out of the Ashes: Another Failure?
2007-11-01

By Peter Rousmaniere

That government failed the rescue, recover and cleanup workers of Sept. 11 is doubtless. Whether all levels of government can learn from their mistakes before the next catastrophe is the real "if."

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