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The parties shall be prepared to discuss, at the forthcoming meeting of April 14, 2005, how this litigation will affect the other September 11th lawsuits, and vice-versa, and to consider proposed timetables. The parties shall confer among themselves, and serve and file short statements of their respective proposals on April 7, 2005. These proposals should include the implications of various findings of liability among parties, the implications of settlement without specific findings of liability, and any other outcome of the underlying cases that will affect this litigation.

The following tracks of cases should be considered. I. 21 MC 97: Wrongful Death and Personal Injury Cases These are claims alleging personal injury and wrongful death from the events on the day of September 11, 2001 by victims who chose not to apply to the Victim’s Compensation Fund (“VCF”). There are approximately 100 cases: About 70 by representatives of deceased airline passengers (UAL and Am. Airlines; UA 93 from Newark into Pennsylvania; UA 175 from Boston into WTC: AA Flight 11 from Boston in WTC, AA Flight 77 from Dulles into the Pentagon. About 30 cases are by representatives of ground victims for wrongful deaths, and by ground victims who suffered injury; against UAL, AA, other airlines, including feeder flights; against Logan and Newark airport authorities, aviation security companies and airlines responsible for security; and against Boeing. The parties shall identify in which cases the Port Authority or its lessees are, and are not, parties, and in what ways, and to what extent, there may, or may not, be insurance exposures.

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