If you were diagnosed with cancer and you lived, worked, or were near “Ground Zero” during or soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, you may be eligible to receive compensation from a Victims Compensation Fund.
A $7.3 billion fund has been established to offer compensation and financial support to people injured as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The fund is designed to help those physically harmed in the attacks, or the families of those killed in the attacks.
9/11 Health Effects: Cancer
During the terrorist attacks, many harmful chemicals and toxins were released into the air, and people present at or near Ground Zero were exposed to them. Sadly, many people developed cancer as a result of their exposure to toxins at ground zero. Many of the claims filed with the Victims Compensation Fund are claims from individuals who believe that their cancer was caused by exposure to chemicals at Ground Zero.
Over 70 types of cancer have qualified for awards from the fund. Claims are possibly valid if a person was diagnosed more than four years after the terrorist attacks in the case of most cancers, and more than one year after the terrorist attacks in the case of blood and bone cancers.
Some of the types of cancer for which people have received compensation are:
- Lung cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Breast cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Non-melanoma skin cancer
- Melanoma
- Thyroid Cancer
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Leukemia
- Mesothelioma
- Head, neck, nasal, mouth cancer
- Colon cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Esophagus cancer
- Bone cancer
- Liver cancer
- Brain cancer
- Sarcoma
- Neuropathy related to cancer treatment
- Dozens more
If you were present at or near “Ground Zero” any time between September 11, 2001 and May 31, 2002, and you later developed cancer, you may be eligible to make a 9/11 health effects claim and receive compensation from a Victims Compensation Fund.
About the Victims Compensation Fund
Now is a better time than ever to make a claim to the Victims Compensation Fund. When the fund was first established, many people who made claims were rejected on the grounds that they were “not injured enough.”
However, after many more people were found to have developed cancer and other 9/11 health effects many years after the terrorist attacks, the government has broadened what kinds of injuries and claims are eligible to receive compensation.
The original Victims Compensation Fund closed in 2004, but was reopened in January 2011 after reports of continued and serious injury, and it was found that many affected individuals still needed and deserved assistance from the fund.
Happily, President Obama signed a bill in 2015 that will keep the fund open until 2020, so individuals still have time to file a claim and receive the compensation they deserve.
Navigating the complex and burdensome paperwork and strict deadlines to participate in the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund can be difficult. An experienced 9/11 Victim Fund attorney can help and ensure you get the maximum compensation available.
If you were present near Ground Zero, generally considered to be Lower Manhattan below Canal Street, between September 11, 2001 and May 31, 2002, and were diagnosed with cancer 4 years or more after exposure (or 1 year or more for blood and bone cancers), you may qualify for compensation.
Submit your information now for a free, no-obligation review of your potential 9/11 cancer fund claim.
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