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The agreement comes with just two months to go until the first trials are to begin in the case. Thousands of police officers, firefighters and construction workers who put in time at the 16-acre site in lower Manhattan had filed lawsuits against the city, plastic duct claiming it sent them to ground zero without proper protective equipment. Many of those workers now claim to have fallen ill. A majority complained of a respiratory problem similar to asthma, but the suits also sought damages for hundreds of other types of ailments, including cancer. Carpenter James Nolan, of Yonkers, ducts said he helped recover bodies and build ramps for firehoses at the site and then developed lung and leg problems, for which he takes six medications. He said the city knew the air was dirty so he sued six years ago and now he’s happy the case is ending. “We’ve had to fight for what we deserve,” trunking said Nolan, 45. “I’m glad it’s coming to an end where I can feel wire duct a little comfortable if I pass away my wife and kids can get something.” Lawyers for the city claimed it did its best to get respiratory equipment to everyone who needed it. They also had challenged some of the claims as based on the thinnest of medical evidence, noting that thousands of the people suing suffered from conditions wire duct common in the general population or from no illness at all.
