Claim Against Son's Employer Limited to Workers' Comp

NEW YORK - A federal judge has dismissed a family's wrongful death claim against the New York City Transit Authority, saying that allegations the authority was negligent in protecting workers after the World Trade Center attacks are barred by the workers' compensation statute. Felicien v. U.S. Federal Environmental Protection Agency, et al., No. 08-civ-3847 (S.D. N.Y.).

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the southern District of New York on Nov. 13 granted the Transit Authority's motion for dismissal of claims by the father of Eldon Felicien, whose death was blamed on workplace exposure to airborne toxins …