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>>>With all the millions of other "victims" who are injured or killed each year in other tragedies, is this a precedent for government intrusion and involvement in the insurance business? We understand that cities have to be rebuilt and people need help doing this kind of thing but there are such things that approach being "acts of the deities", occurrences that defy forethought and expectation that become demands in the afterthunk up expectations of "victims". I think they should send RICO out on an investigation. NYC was never, is not, and never will be the epicentre of the world. A<>E<>R <<< }}}>Begin Sunday January 6 9:30 PM ET WTC Victims Decry Compensation Fund Photos AP Photo By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Several dozen family members of World Trade Center victims and four members of Congress on Sunday called for revisions to the interim rules governing the federal victims' compensation fund. ``It would be terrible if the families of those victims were to be victimized again by the regulations that are being enacted by the special master,'' Rep. Peter King (news - bio - voting record) said at a news conference. Special Master Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer appointed to oversee the government fund, said he hoped to address the concerns. Under the rules announced by Feinberg on Dec. 20, the compensation that family members receive would depend on the victim's family size, age and earnings. Feinberg has said that the average family would receive about $1.6 million. The regulations give the family of each victim $250,000 for non- economic losses such as pain and suffering. Life insurance and pension fund payments would be subtracted from the awards, but charitable contributions would not. ``We're talking about a $250,000 cap,'' said Rep. Felix Grucci (news - bio - voting record), a Republican. ``You could slip and fall on the sidewalk as you walk out of here - and I'm not suggesting that anybody do that - but probably earn more on a slip-and-fall claim than these people will get for losing their loved ones.'' Relatives who apply to the fund would largely give up their right to sue. Beverly Eckert said she was on the phone with her husband, Sean Rooney, who worked at Aon Corp. in the south tower of the World Trade Center, for the last half-hour of his life until the tower collapsed. ``This is about fairness,'' Eckert said. ``We're here because the figure that Special Master Kenneth Feinberg selected for pain and suffering in no way represents what the people who died went through.'' When asked about the $250,000 award for pain and suffering, Feinberg said, ``We're reviewing all the regulations. I am concerned that there are families of the victims who are troubled by this.'' 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