Miami Attorney Gets $12.6M Payout for USS Cole Bombing Victims
Andrew C. Hall helped change the law to make it possible to sue a state sponsor of terrorism in U.S. federal court.
April 25, 2017 at 03:00 AM
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Victims of the 2000 USS Cole bombing received their first round of awards from a federal government fund, a $12.6 million payment that follows years of litigation and lobbying from their Miami attorney Andrew C. Hall.
Hall's clients include 37 injured sailors and the families of 17 who died when al-Qaida suicide bombers attacked the ship, which was refueling at a Yemeni port. A federal judge in 2007 found the Sudanese government liable for helping the terrorists carry out the attack.
The U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, administered by special master Kenneth Feinberg, allocated about $9.8 million to the injured sailors and about $2.7 million to the families of those who died. Hall's clients will all receive their checks in the next few weeks. Further payments are expected, but Hall said it's impossible to know the amounts or the timing.
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