What is life worth?
Subtitle: the unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9/11
By: Kenneth R. Feinberg
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781586483234; 9781586484514
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Entschädigung; Legal status, laws; Opfer; Elfter September; History; Terrorismus; Terrorism victims' families; Reparation (Criminal justice)
Description: Presents a memoir of the attorney appointed to administer the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, detailing his encounters with victims' families and the means he used to derive the amount of compensation they received.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The experience of a lifetime; title: Shouldering the load; title: From theory to reality; title: The families speak; title: Struggling with the incomprehensible; title: Solomon's choices; title: Looking back; title: Looking ahead : lessons for the future.