Important Information about your November 8 Settlement Deadline - Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern, LLP
Dear Client:
As you have already been informed through numerous emailed letters and other communications, the absolute deadline to opt-in to the World Trade Center Settlement with the City of New York and its contractors is November 8, 2010.
At a press conference on October 5, 2010, Mayor Bloomberg emphatically stated that this deadline would not be extended and if the 95% threshold level is not reached by that time, the settlement would be dead.
Although the deadline is November 8, we must have your signed release and related documents in hand before that date because once the papers are in our hands, they must then be scanned into our computer system and processed here in our office before they can be delivered to the Court-appointed administrator. In addition to the processing, you must allow your attorneys ample time to review your paperwork to ensure it is not deficient in some way. If there are significant errors in the papers, you will have not met the deadline and this may require that we send another package out to you to re-sign and return. If you miss the opt-in deadline, you may be ineligible for compensation under this settlement. Your failure to timely settle your claims might impact your eligibility for benefits under the Zadroga Bill if it is passed by the Senate and becomes law.
In order to insure that you avoid these pitfalls, go to our office in the Empire State Building or on Long Island to submit your settlement paperwork immediately. An attorney or paralegal will be able to sit with you and review the papers, answer any questions you may have and thus assure that you will have timely submitted your papers to opt-in and accept your settlement offer.
Best Regards,
Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern LLP
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 350
New York, New York 10118
Phone: (212) 267-3700
Fax: (212) 587-0031
3500 Sunrise Highway, Suite T-207
Great River, New York 11739
Phone: (631) 224-1133
Fax: (631) 224-4774
