Victim Compensation Fund

Today, February 6, 2025, would have been the 67th birthday of FDNY Firefighter Raymond J. Pfeifer, a 9/11 hero and Barasch & McGarry client. Ray Pfeifer’s advocacy helped to create permanent health and compensation benefits for 9/11 community members with cancer or respiratory illness and their families. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Ray Pfeifer […]

January is National Thyroid Awareness Month. If you were there as a responder or you worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan on or after 9/11, you have a higher risk of developing many respiratory illnesses and 69 different types of cancer resulting from exposure to Ground Zero toxins, including thyroid cancer. Within days of 9/11, the […]

Today, January 2, marks the fourteenth anniversary of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, named in honor of hero NYPD Detective James Zadroga, a Barasch & McGarry client. The act established the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program and reactivated the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), providing free health care and compensation to responders and survivors who […]

This year on Thanksgiving, we have so much to be grateful for. We thank our first responders and all those who have served and protected our wonderful country. Especially on this holiday, we are honored to recognize the heroes. We are privileged to represent 9/11 responders and survivors, as well as families who have lost […]

Stay in touch with your lawyer. You may be entitled to additional compensation. From the moment we speak to a new client, foremost on our mind is making sure that they get the compensation they deserve. That is why the most gratifying moments we experience as attorneys for the 9/11 community are when we hand […]

November is Stomach Cancer Awareness Month. Anyone who worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan on or after 9/11 has a higher risk of many serious respiratory illnesses and 69 different types of cancer, including stomach cancer. Barasch & McGarry represents more than 200 members of the 9/11 community who have been diagnosed with stomach cancer. […]