This past week on Netflix, I was able to watch the movie “Worth” starring Michael Keaton. The movie is about Kenneth Feinberg as Special Master of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
Mr. Feinberg appeared on my program in Dec 2020, The Right on Point Podcast. I asked him about his role as the Special Master, how his experience and knowledge of victim compensation would compare to the NVICP and the COVID related CICP programs. We also discussed the possibility of a new compensation fund for COVID Front Line workers.
You can listen here. The episode is a bit choppy due to technical communication issues but it is worth the listen.
Mr. Feinberg and I communicate from time to time regarding the NVICP and COVID vax injures in the CICP. I am honored that we can share ideas, concerns, and backstory discussions of the movie, “Worth” on Netflix.
Mr. Kenneth Feinberg, former Chief of Staff of Sen. Ted Kennedy, adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law, Columbia University Law was appointed to the position of Special Master overseeing the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2001.
Mr. Feinberg had extensive experience dealing with mediation and alternative dispute resolution by overseeing the Agent Orange. After completing his duty with the 9/11 Comp Fund, he would oversee the BP Deepwater Disaster Fund, the One Fund for the Boston Marathon bombing, and most recently, overseeing the Boeing 737 Max crash fund.
After 9/11, Congress wanted to create a compensation fund for the victims and families of this tragedy. And they constructed the plan entirely different. Congress moved quickly to provide $7 billion as compensation in order to prevent an onslaught of lawsuits that would bankrupt the airline industry. Perhaps to hold off collapse of our economy.
Mr. Feinberg has published two books, “What is life worth? : the unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9/11” in 2005, and in 2012, “Who gets what?”
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