New York jury says 9/11 was one act of terrorism, not two

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NEW YORK (AFP) — In a setback for developer Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder for the collapsed World Trade Center twin towers, a federal jury in New York has found that a majority of insurers were bound by a definition of the September 11 terrorist attacks as one event rather than two.

Silverstein on February 9 took several insurance companies to court insisting that the twin towers were destroyed in two terrorist attacks, rather than one, seeking twice the overall 3.5 billion dollars the trade center was insured for.

The verdict announced Thursday at US District Court in Manhattan, just blocks north of the former World Trade Center site, was based on a document the insurers were bound to and which defined the September 11 attacks as one event, favoring eight...