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. Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:34 PM Collateral offsets It was startling to read the current issue of Time magazine and see it reported that many of the 9/11 victims could end up receiving no compensation after deductions for life insurance, social security and workers compensation are made. Then it hit me, Time's calculations assume that the collateral source payments will offset the non economic damage portion of the award as well as the economic award. That is not the law of collateral source deductions in the states I'm aware of, including New York. Under existing law, collateral payments received, including life insurance, social security and workers compensation, can only offset the economic portion of the award. Therefore, if the collateral source payments exceed the economic portion of the award, the victim would receive nothing for economic loss, but would nevertheless receive the full award for non economic loss at a minimum. I remember nothing in the statute adopted by Congress that said that these collateral payments should be treated any different than in the typical tort case. I hope Time was in error in its assumption. Hopefully this can be clarified so that the anguish experienced by those injured and the families who lost loved ones will not be unnecessarily exacerbated. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-06 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 dojP000447.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. 2002-02-06