Family of man killed in September 11 attacks accepts $1m payout from compo fund

By Tom Kelly, New York THE family of a man killed in the World Trade Center has accepted a million-dollar award in the first settlement from the US Government’s disaster compensation fund.

Relatives of the unnamed financial services worker, who was single and in his 20s, agreed not to sue the airlines in exchange for the $1m payout.

“This is a family that wanted closure,” the family’s lawyer Robert Gordon told the Washington Post. “They wanted it done.”