WTF? Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check

[Optimus]

Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check

By SUSAN EDELMAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Last Updated: 1:08 PM, July 31, 2011
Posted: 2:14 AM, July 31, 2011

Cancer-stricken Ground Zero worker Edgar Galvis has finally received a compensation check -- for zero dollars.

The 51-year-old Queens man, who suffered sinus problems and then throat cancer after months of removing toxic debris from the World Financial Center, was relieved to get a check in the mail for his court settlement with Merrill Lynch, whose offices he had cleaned.

But he was stunned when he saw the amount: $0.00.

His award had been $10,005, but his lawyers at the firm Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli Bern lopped off $2,579 for unitemized legal expenses.


'I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE': Edgar
Galvis, a Ground Zero worker who has
throat cancer, holds the settlement check
he got from a law firm.


TOILING: Galvis spent months clearing
offices of debris at Ground Zero.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/ground_zeros_OUrlQ6Ap5qJQx3TnQxQBgJ#ixzz1TiT6IQOy

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His award had been $10,005, but his lawyers at the firm Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli Bern lopped off $2,579 for unitemized legal expenses.

Then they took a 33.3 percent fee of $2,124.

They also subtracted $352, a fee to the lawyer who referred him.

The remaining $4,950 was withheld for unspecified "liens," the letter says. Galvis thinks this was repayment of workers' compensation for aid.

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[donnay]

That is an absolute disgrace. One of the reason why I have very little respect for lawyers.  Win, lose or draw they always win!!  


This law firm should have taken these cases on a Pro Bono basis...I would have a lot more respect for them and they would have gotten much more business from other people.  Rat bastards!!!!!