NYC: Billions In The Balance

27 April 2004 - 11:00am

The long-suffering jurors in the World Trade Center insurance case,minds numbed from mountains of minutiae, are about to make up theirminds.

"The city now awaits the outcome of another property-and-money courtroom drama, this one in a jury trial in state court. And this trial is driven by the awful events that marked the end of the late-90s recovery, and indeed the end of the century. It's the infamous One-Attack-or-Two battle between Silverstein Properties and the insurers of the World Trade Center.So, One or Two: besides the not insubstantial sum of $3.6 billion, what difference will it make?"

Source: The Slatin Report, April 27, 2004
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