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Court battle looms over number of attacks in New York

Billions of dollars are at stake in a court case filed by the insurance companies who covered the World Trade Center and who are hoping to limit their liability for the policy on the complex

By David DeRosa  /  BLOOMBERG , NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT

Sounds like a big, undefined and open-ended commitment to me.

And if you think Silverstein has troubles collecting from Swiss Re and its co-insurers, imagine trying to get that kind of money out of the federal government.

David DeRosa, president of DeRosa Research & Trading, is also an adjunct finance professor at Yale School of Management and is author of In Defense of Free Capital Markets. The opinions expressed are his own.

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