Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:53 PM Brief Comment on Victims Compensation Fund I lost my husband who worked in One WTC. I applaud Mr. Feinberg's efforts to get this program up and running prior to the statutory deadline of December 21, 2001. I feel that most provisions are fair, clear, and reasonable under the circumstances, and would like to participate in the program as soon as possible. However, I cannot submit my claim until one critical issue is resolved with absolute certainty. That is the issue of subrogation rights under the New York State Workers' Compensation Law, which is clearly outlined in the comment letter from the President of the Injured Workers' Bar Association dated November 27, 2001. In that letter, he suggested that one way a claimant can protect his/her rights to receive workers' compensation payments is to grant a lien to the insurance company in a settlement agreement. I personally would not be comfortable with such an uncertain arrangement. The only assuring way is to amend the interim regulation to clearly provide that a waiver of the right to sue in order to receive the federal payment is not the equivalent of settling a third party action under any state law. It should not require an action of Congress to do this. No matter how you choose to clarify this issue, I would appreciate it if you could begin discussions with the workers' insurance companies in order to resolve this apparent conflict in the right of subrogation as soon as possible. I do not believe that anyone in the right mind would participate in the program unless he/she is assured that the workers' compensation payments are going to continue subsequent to the participation. Thank you very much for your attention to this matter. My contact information, which I request to be treated confidentially along with my name, is Stamford, CT. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-27 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN001018.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-12-27