Sentences with phrase «victim compensation fund since»

$ 100 million + recovered to date for clients from the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund since the Zadroga Act enacted in 2010.

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WASHINGTON, DC — The Department of Justice announced today that since it reopened in 2011, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) has paid over $ 1.52 billion to first responders, recovery workers, and residents who suffered physical ha

George, who has served as chief justice since 1996, will deliver the keynote address, while Feinberg, who was special master of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund and is managing partner and founder of The Feinberg Group, LLP, will present the opening remarks.

In the world before the Supreme Court's recent Philip Morris decision, the risk of giving the plaintiff — who might only be one of many victims of the defendant's conduct — the entire punitive damages award was that it would more likely undermine the state's in - terest in ensuring a fair distribution of both compensatory and retributive damages for oth - ers, since a crippling retributive damages award might impair the availability of adequate compensation funds (or punitive damages) for future claimants.

At the February Convocation, new guidelines were put in place for the victim Compensation Fund, which has been in place since 1953.