David Worby

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David E. Worby, JD is a trial lawyer who specializes in personal injury cases. He is a published author in American Trial Lawyers Magazine.

1 Villanova University affiliations
2 Ground Zero illnesses
3 Sister Cindy Mahoney
4 External links
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Villanova University affiliations

Worby graduated from Villanova University Law School in 1976 with a JD.

He has since founded the following:

David E. Worby Scholarship Fund Villanova University School of Law
David E. Worby Course in Advanced Trial Practice at Villanova's Law School

He was also a Senior Member of the Development Leadership Council at the Law School.

He is also a composer, screenwriter, playwright and author.

[edit] Ground Zero illnesses

He represents the largest number of clients experiencing Ground Zero illnesses. According to New York Magazine: [Worby] is a New York lawyer, who filed the first lawsuit for a leukemia-stricken NYPD detective who served at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills landfill, a case that mushroomed into a massive class action with 8,000 WTC workers. ^[1]. By September, 2007, the number of plaintiffs in the case reached 10,000. "I started this suit on behalf of one cop that got sick." He continued, "Nobody would touch the case with a 10 foot pole because it was considered unpatriotic to say anything against the cleanup or the EPA.^[2]

A class action lawsuit has been filed by a group of at least 600 workers associated with the World Trade Center cleanup – cops, firefighters, sanitation workers, Transportation Department workers, Con Ed and Verizon employees, and independent day laborers, et al. against the WTC developer Larry Silverstein and a number of ground-zero cleanup contractors.

Worby faults government officials for individuals' illnesses:

"They are getting sick because of people like Christine Todd Whitman and Rudy Giuliani." "My people don't want their names to be on the wall, because they are not victims of terrorists --they're victims of bad government. Giuliani should be banned from public office for what he did." ^[3]

Worby's firm has filed suit against the City of New York, the Port Authority and the Environmental Protection Agency. The suits allege that dust from the 9/11 attacks made the plaintiffs sick, and seek billions of dollars in funding for medical screening and treatment and billions more in damages. The majority of the plaintiffs are suffering from asthma, sinusitis, chronic bronchitis. But others have kidney and heart problems. And at least twenty have cancers, says Worby, including leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and esophageal and thyroid cancers.

Doctors say that the carcinogens in the WTC dust accelerated cancers that were already under way in some rescue workers, either by promoting further mutations in genes whose cancerous transformations were nearly complete, or by tampering with genes that suppress these deadly mutations. ^[4].

[edit] Sister Cindy Mahoney

When she became aware that many others who had been at Ground Zero were sick, Sister Cindy Mahoney tracked down Worby and asked him to use any posthumous findings from her body and her autopsy to fight for the health of 9/11 workers. Sister Mahoney suffered from asthma, reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and gastroesophageal reflux disease, which she blamed on Ground Zero exposure, and which may have hastened her own death at the age of 54 on November 1, 2006.