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In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, while much of the country was still stunned and grieving, Michelle Cottom was being forced to deal with an ugly bottom line. How much was her child's life worth?

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TechnologyExpert
Sept. 4, 2007, 10:51 a.m.
The Cottoms - and the families of 41 other victims - may soon get an answer as the little-noticed lawsuits they have brought against the airlines, security companies and other parties move toward a trial in a Manhattan courtroom.
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engineer
Sept. 4, 2007, 11:05 a.m.
The airlines could not have known. This is just wrong that some people are so greedy!
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white-pawn
Sept. 4, 2007, 11:16 a.m.
Too bad you have to log onto the New York Times to read the article.
It is also a shame that we can't post any stories from Alex Jones, because they won't accept "inflammatory sept 11th articles".
Censorship on Netscape.
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GrainOfSand
Sept. 4, 2007, 1:09 p.m.
Yea, and Mayor Bloomberg isn't doing much to help other victims and their families either. He's done everything he can to stall the process. I guess he's waiting for these sick folks who helped their fellow man after such a tragic day, to die themselves.
This is an awful thing to do to these first responders. And look at those who've already died while waiting for help. Now their families are stuck with huge medical bills and even more heartache from a tragedy that keeps on giving.
God Bless 9/11 Victims and Their Families.
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willottica
Sept. 4, 2007, 2:49 p.m.
How do you evaluate the cost of the life of a person? $250,000 was insulting??? Okay, how about nothing. Since the value of a child to her parents is impossible to calculate. A parent's loss can be quantified in lost earnings and support for the children/spouse... but that only addresses material things. Who should really be compensated for that child's loss, anyway? The parents (who would have 'lost' her in several years when she left home and married), or perhaps we could ask God who he had planned as her perfect mate, and offer him/her compensation?
And then, who pays? I find it hard to believe that the airline should be responsible for the terrorist attack. She chose to fly (or her parents chose for her) knowing the amount of airport security that existed and probably with a similar knowledge of the risk of that plane being hijacked by terrorists.
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willottica
Sept. 4, 2007, 5:21 p.m.
"If you put every actor who in part or in whole allowed the events of 9/11 to happen in this courtroom, and take each of their respective shares of responsibility and aggregate it, you have 100 percent liability," he said. "What is the number that you come up with?"
Spin, spin, spin. By this argument, I am responsible for the attacks on 9/11. I did nothing to prevent them. In fact, I am much more responsible than the airline security personnel who did their jobs as well as they could to try to prevent it. Where was I? At home. Sleeping! Shame on me. Of course, I had no idea such a tragedy was going to take place; the security personnel, on the other hand, HAD NO IDEA EITHER.
What number do I come up with Mr. Migliani? Much less than 100, because those who CAUSED the tragedy to occur bear the brunt of the responsibility, rather than those who ALLOWED it to occur (or in this case, failed to prevent it - which is QUITE different from complicit negligence).