NEW YORK (Reuters) – Developer Larry Silverstein cannot recover billions of dollars from airlines over the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center in New York because insurers have already compensated his company, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Silverstein's company has recovered more than $4 billion from its insurers.
Silverstein, 82, had sought to pursue damages at a trial from United Airlines and American Airlines, whose planes crashed into the World Trade Center.
"If this case were to go forward," Hellerstein said to a packed courtroom, Silverstein "would not be able to recover anything against the airlines."
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