Ground Zero Workers File Billion-Dollar Health Lawsuit
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Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions.
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WASHINGTON: New York and New Jersey authorities have said they will join a lawsuit suing Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden and other Islamic institutions that allegedly raised money for terrorism.
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Walgreen, the largest chemist in the US, is sued for allegedly discriminating against black workers.
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Hundreds of people who worked on the World Trade Center cleanup have filed a class-action lawsuit against the leaseholder of the towers and those who supervised the job, alleging they did little to protect workers from dust, asbestos and other toxins in the air.
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The first findings from a massive collection of health data at Ground Zero were made public yesterday, showing that residents and emergency workers have more psychological
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IBM is being sued by a group of more than 90 current and former residents of Endicott, N.Y. who allege that the company's manufacturing operations in the area caused environmental contamination that made them sick. IBM disputes the allegations.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A union representing health care workers who locked out at Sutter Health affiliated hospitals since Thursday, announced today that it is filing a lawsuit against Sutter Health and Modern Industrial Services, the agency Sutter used to hire
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Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond brokerage  that suffered more deaths in the Sept. 11 attacks than any  other company, on Friday sued al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and dozens  of foreign companies seeking damages related to the attacks on  the World Trade Center.
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A lawsuit filed Monday attempts to recoup tens of millions spent by government-financed health programs to purchase the painkiller and to treat patients for its side effects.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31 -- The son of a Ground Zero rescue worker who died last week of  lung disease met with President Bush on Wednesday to urge expansion of health services for those still fighting illnesses.
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Neighbors of a former IBM  plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80 years that caused birth defects and cancer.
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A group of heavy Marlboro smokers have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking Philip Morris USA to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages of lung cancer, court documents showed on Friday.
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The lung disease that killed a police detective who toiled for weeks at ground zero was caused by injecting ground-up pills, not by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, the city medical examiner's office confirmed Thursday.
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NEW YORK - An insurance company has sued Lenny Kravitz, saying it had to pay for more than $300,000 worth of water damage in a neighbor's apartment after one of Kravitz's toilets overflowed two months ago. Amica Mutual Insurance Co.
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Activists, including U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, put fresh pressure on New York City on Friday to compensate Ground Zero workers following the first confirmed death from inhaling the dust of the World Trade Center wreckage.
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A lawsuit is filed on behalf of bummed-out New York customers.
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Rescue workers with chronic illnesses they attribute to exposure to the rubble at the World Trade Center site demanded long-term support from the government on Wednesday, and one advocate feared it could become "America's Chernobyl."