What I have not seen on this thread is the announcement yesterday of a fund administered by the Justice Department (don't laugh, OBL's boys are under every bed....really) to pay off all the victims of 9/11. The formula is to take the probable lifetime earnings if person had not been murdered add a certain number of dollars for pain and suffering subtract what the family gets in insurance settlement and retirement plan funds and the number that comes out to be paid by the US Gov. $50,000 now the rest when the calculations are made. The rub is by taking the money you must agree not to sue anybody.
To sue is to take a chance on getting boatloads of lovely money somewhere down the road and giving lots of it to the lawyers or maybe not getting much of anything. You pays your money and takes your chances.
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