NEW YORK AP – The lead lawyer for thousands of Sept. 11 rescue and recovery workers has acknowledged that in preparing some claims, his firm made mistakes – including assertions that people had cancer when they didn’t.
But the attorney, Paul Napoli, said the errors all occurred at preliminary stages of the case, are being corrected and won’t have any bearing on the outcome. He characterized the mistakes as few and accidental, caused by a crushing workload and a rush to meet court deadlines.