NEW YORK
Wall Street Journal
By JOSH BARBANEL
Oct. 6, 2016
In the face of tragic loss, governments, corporations and now the Archdiocese of New York have turned to Kenneth Feinberg for help translating a bit of that loss into cash payments to victims and their families.
The 70-year-old Mr. Feinberg, a lawyer and mediator in Washington, D.C., has been at the work for more than three decades.
Mr. Feinberg has helped settle claims and dole out compensation to veterans exposed to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
In perhaps his most high-profile assignment, Mr. Feinberg was appointed to administer the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. The fund distributed $7.1 billion in taxpayer money.
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