URGENT ACTION NEEDED! The World Trade Center Health Program is at risk. Without Congressional action, the World Trade Center Health Program faces a massive budget shortfall and will have to start turning away first responders and survivors and cut back access to care by 2028. Join us on Thursday, September 12, at 5:30 p.m., at 52 Broadway in Manhattan, for a free seminar on protecting the health program, which provides medical care for more than 132,000 members of the 9/11 community. Learn what you can do to urge Congress to fully fund the program so people don’t lose the critical health care they deserve.
Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community
Law Practice
We fight for the rights of 9/11 heroes and those exposed to toxic dust on and after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
About us
Two decades after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 shocked the world, thousands of responders and survivors who were exposed to toxins from the World Trade Center site are still living a nightmare. Every day, Barasch & McGarry observes how cancer, respiratory disorders and other disabling and deadly diseases linked to the exposure continue to devastate families. We are proud to have represented James Zadroga, an NYPD detective who developed pulmonary fibrosis as a result of his exposure to the WTC toxic dust. His death persuaded Congress to pass the “James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act” in 2010. The law reopened the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, which provides benefits to people whose illnesses resulted from exposure to WTC dust and ongoing health treatment for those sickened by the toxins. When it became clear that Congress had not sufficiently funded the VCF, Michael Barasch returned to Congress with labor union members, responders, downtown office workers and residents. In 2015, Congress reauthorized and extended the Zadroga Act. The new law extended the WTC Health Program for 75 years and the VCF was given an additional $4 billion -- but it was only extended until December, 2020. From October 2018 through June 2019, Michael and the dedicated attorneys and staff of Barasch & McGarry joined dozens of FealGood Foundation volunteers to advocate on behalf of the entire 9/11 community including sick responders, downtown residents, office workers, students and teachers. Michael was there every step of the way. He was there when the Senate passed the Bill and he was invited to the Rose Garden when the President signed the permanent extension and full funding into law. Since 2011, the re-opened VCF has awarded over $5 Billion to 25,000+ responders and survivors. Barasch & McGarry has represented more sickened 9/11 victims and recovered more money from the Victim Compensation Fund (over $3 billion) than any other law firm in the country.
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- Industry
- Law Practice
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York
- Type
- Self-Owned
- Founded
- 1994
- Specialties
- Personal Injury, Post 9/11 Illnesses & Cancers, Planes, Trains, Bus & Boat Accidents, Zadroga Act, Construction Site Accidents, Victims Compensation Fund, Car Accidents, Firefighter & Other Municipal Worker Accidents, Medical Malpractice, and Wrongful Death
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New York, 10007, US
Employees at Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community
Updates
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For more than three decades, Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community attorneys have represented New York City Fire Department firefighters and the entire first responder community, from on-the-job injuries through the continuing 9/11 health crisis. We are honored to support the FDNY Fire Chiefs Annual Golf Outing, which provides scholarships for the families of FDNY members who died in the line of duty, protecting the people of New York City. Representing Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community with me were Retired Firefighter Michael O'Connell, Attorney Michael Gorman, Managing Partner Michael Barasch,and Attorney Travis A. Carter, Esq.
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In 2010, 2015 and in 2019, we asked members of the 9/11 Community to reach out to their Representatives in Congress to convince them to pass and extend the 9/11 Zadroga Health & Compensation Act. Thanks to your efforts, 99% of the members in Congress eventually voted in favor of the permanent extension of both the WTC Health Program and the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF). Unfortunately, we need your help again. The World Trade Center Health Program is facing an impending budget shortfall mainly due to the increased costs of medical inflation. As you know, 69 cancers (uterine cancer was the latest cancer added) and many respiratory illnesses have been linked to the WTC toxins. The costs of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation have skyrocketed. Unless Congress authorizes additional funding, new applicants may be denied enrollment in the health program starting in 2028 and services for current participants could be reduced in the years after that. Congress has taken some steps to deal with the impending deficit. Additional funds were added by Senators Gillibrand and Schumer in the 2022 Omnibus. The Senators were then joined by Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) to get Congress to authorize enrolling Pentagon and Shanksville responders who were not able to join the program. There was also additional funding in the 2023 National Defense Authorization. But even with these efforts, the World Trade Center Health Program is still facing an impending deficit in the coming years. The bipartisan “9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding and Correction Act of 2024” by Representative Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) and Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) will ensure that the health program gets the full funding it needs. I am asking you to please contact your Representatives in Congress and urge them to join in co-sponsoring the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding and Correction Act. If they have already signed on to the bill, then thank them for joining in this effort. Thank you for joining in this effort and calling your Member of Congress today. With deep respect, Mike Barasch
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Michael Barasch and Valerie A. Velazquez-Stetz of Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community, in an interview with PIX11, shared the enormous gratitude of the 9/11 community on learning that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a plea deal for three terrorist masterminds of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. “Justice is not just for the defendants, but it’s also for the victims. We deserve answers. I speak on behalf of nearly 40,000 who I represent who want to know, who funded these terrorists?” said Barasch, who advocates for 9/11 responders and survivors who have been diagnosed with cancer or respiratory illness from their exposure to Ground Zero toxins, as well as their families. Retired Jersey City police officer Velazquez-Stetz, a 9/11 responder, said members of the 9/11 community "are all grateful now" at the opportunity to confront in a courtroom the terrorists responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11 itself and more than 6,000 members of the 9/11 community in the nearly 23 years since 9/11.
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