Seeking to win some of the $310 million gathering dust in a little-known city 9/11-claims fund, a city firefighter who developed lymphoma after working at Ground Zero is suing NYC.
The Manhattan federal court lawsuit is highly unusual because it will bar Brian Kevan, 51, from filing a claim with the federal Victims Compensation Fund, which has doled out $7 billion to first responders and others sickened at Ground Zero.
Instead of filing the more common VCF claim, Kevan’s lawyers are going after a city fund — called the WTC Captive Insurance Co.– which started with $1 billion granted by Congress after 9/11. It was used to pay $700 million in a mass settlement with 10,000 Ground Zero responders in 2010.
Since then — and with the VCF paying almost all 9/11-related claims — the city has done little with the remaining money but pay its skeleton crew of employees, and earn interest.
“It’s a zombie insurance company,” a 9/11 lawyer not involved in the Kevan case told The Post.