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City settles with thousands of WTC workers

New York City and a taxpayer-funded insurance company will pay up to $657 million to settle with more than 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who say they were sickened while working near Ground Zero after 9/11, officials said Thursday.

The agreement comes after years of wrangling over the claims of thousands of police, firefighters, construction workers and others who worked near the ruins...

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