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On September 11, 2001, the world changed for us all. For the persons represented by plaintiffs in this action including widows, children and parents of firefighters killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers that change was catastrophic. What was not known publicly at the time, however, but what is now confirmed by the recent The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2001), is that those deaths could have been prevented but for the misfeasance and culpable negligence of agents and officials of the defendants Motorola Inc. and the City of New York. Both Motorola and City officials knew that the antiquated analog radio equipment used by the firemen would not work in high-rise buildings, and indeed that it had failed at the time of the February 26, 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center. As the Commission Report emphasizes, that faulty equipment predictably failed again on September 11. As a result, firefighters were unable to communicate with fire chiefs directing their activities and thus did not receive numerous evacuation orders, resulting in their death. Virgilio v. City of New York & Motorola Inc.
For information on various 9/11 Litigation matters, please see:
http://www1.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases.php?form=sept11
http://www.sept11tortlitigation.com/
http://www.wtcfamiliesforproperburial.com/
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