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A number of other elected officials have also echoed the families' calls for higher caps on lost earnings and larger awards for noneconomic losses like pain and suffering.
For example, the settlement reduces the probability of larger awards for people who previously served time in prison, where strip-searches are routine.
… More papers, more discussion, better data, and more satisfactory models – not larger awards of damages – mark the path towards superior understanding of the world around us". – US Chief Justice Frank Easterbrook, Underwager v Salter 22 Fed.
Saying that the complaints from families of those killed or injured on Sept. 11 had not fallen on deaf ears, the official overseeing the federal Victims Compensation Fund announced final regulations today that he said would produce substantially larger awards than his initial rules would have allowed.
Judge Daniels said it was unlikely that further inquiry would yield larger awards to policyholders and that it was not reasonable to further delay payouts to those agreeing to the settlement on speculation that the Mukasey decision might be overturned or that Congress would act.
B1 U.S. Fund to Raise Payments The official overseeing the federal Victims Compensation Fund announced final regulations that he said would produce substantially larger awards for survivors of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks than his initial rules would have allowed -- on average, $1.85 million.
While this was the largest award ever for an individual, there has been a larger award in a class action lawsuit against tobacco companies.
Mr. Feinberg also pointed out that families could appeal to him if they felt their particular circumstances warranted a larger award.
"A new trial could result in a much larger award, including damages for past and future lost pension," they wrote.
A jury awarded Pennzoil $10.53 billion in damages, one of the largest awards in American legal history.
But many very large awards, including one for $28 billion in Los Angeles, have already been reduced.
