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LI cases among first 9/11 lawsuits to go to trial
Quick ReadThree LI cases will be among the first 12 to go to trial, U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein announced Friday in Manhattan.
Photo credit: AP | FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 18, 2002, firefighters in New York working on recovery efforts at the site of the World Trade Center disaster wait for their shift to start. A federal judge has set the stage for the first civil trials over illnesses caused by ash and dust from the World Trade Center.
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Sgt. Michael Honovich of Dix Hills was a Port Authority police officer at the World Trade Center site after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 who now suffers from dizziness, nasal problems, anxiety and migraines.
Robert Galvani of Levittown worked there, too, as a Consolidated Edison driver, and he now endures shortness of breath and fears cancer.
Lynbrook's Nicholas Ferrantello, a Transit...
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