What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11

Feinberg, Kenneth R.

ISBN 10: 1586484516 / ISBN 13: 9781586484514

Published by PublicAffairs, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586484516
• ISBN 13: 9781586484514
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As head of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Kenneth Feinberg was asked to do the impossible: calculate the dollar value of over 5,000 dead and injured as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

About the Author

Kenneth R. Feinberg, one of the nation's leading lawyers, has been front and centre in some of the most complex public legal disputes of the past three decades: Agent Orange, asbestos, the closing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, and now, 9/11. A former prosecutor and member of two Presidential Commissions, he is also adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and New York University.