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. Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:18 PM Fwd: Fw: concerns over victim compensation fund I agree with this letter from &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp . Please add my name to the list that has concerns over the vixtim's compensation fund. Thank you. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp --------------- Dear Mr. Kenneth Feinberg, I am writing to express my concerns over the victim's compensation fund. Based on the current format of the distribution of the funds myself and others will be receiving minimal or no compensation from the government. It appears the guidelines of the fund takes whatever possible measures to reduce the amount of compensation awarded to the victims' families.The fund designed to compensate the families of the victims, fails to take in an adequate account for non - economical losses. Many families of victims award's are off-set by the collateral sources reduction. If the total amount of collateral sources myself and others receive is greater than the total award for the economic losses than the award for non - economic loss which is understood to be 250,000 is deducted. This is where my great concern arises. I strongly urge you to increase the non - economic damages to 1 million for all families. This fund was designed to compensate families for economic losses as well as non -economic losses such as pain and suffering, money under the current format, I will not receive. Many families are not being compensated for pain and suffering and would rather turn to the courts to get a fair compensation for non economic losses such as the loss of the enjoyment of life. If the bill pays awards next to nothing for the families it is leaving them with no other choice than to pursue in a long drawn out case against the airlines to adequately compensate for pain and suffering, doing exactly what the bill was designed to prevent. If there was an increase in the award for non - economical losses to adequately compensate for pain and suffering it would please many families and save them a long process of litigation in the courts. In addition I believe that it is only fair and equitable that families have the right to be fully informed of their compensation prior to officially waving their right to litigate. Anything other is unjust and beneficial to the airlines and the government. Mr. Feinberg I truly thank you for your time and consideration of this matter. I thank your efforts and all your work pertaining to the compensation of the families of the victims. I hope you can realize the problems of the bill that limits many families of their proper reward and be able to make amendments that benefit the victims as opposed to the airlines. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-12 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 dojN001569.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. 2002-01-12