Wiley Rein, Insurer Sanctioned $1.25 Million

Failure to disclose a key insurance document for the Port Authority at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and other discovery abuses will cost Wiley Rein and Coughlin Duffy. The firms and the insurance company they represented have been sanctioned $1.25 million by a New York judge, who said the company's document destruction and attorneys' misleading statements added millions of dollars to the cost of prosecuting suits on behalf of people who suffered losses in the 2001 attacks.