New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's decision to intervene in the case of a former deputy mayor who believes that he became severely ill from working around ground zero after the Sept. 11 attack has cast unwanted attention on the city's handling of 9/11 workers' compensation cases. Scores of such cases continue to drag on nearly five years after the attack.
See "City Workers' 9/11 Claims Meet Obstacles", Sewell Chan, The New York Times, May 21, 2006