9/11 Lawsuits Move Forward

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To Loretta Filipov, it was never about the money.

Her 70-year-old husband, Alexander, an electrical engineer, was on Flight 11 with 91 other people when it crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on Sept. 11.

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9/11 Lawsuits Move Forward

Sixteen days later, Congress created the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund to provide for the survivors of the nearly 3,000 who died that day, if they agreed not to litigate their claims.

By the time the sign-up deadline arrived in December of 2003, some 97 percent of the eligible families had decided to go through the now-closed Fund - but Filipov was not among them.

A resident of Concord, Mass., Filipov had attended a meeting in Boston called by Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the Fund, along with her lawyers.

"It was terrible," she recalled. "People were asking questions like, 'My...

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