The Destruction of the World Trade Center and the Law on Event-identity

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September 11, 2001 brought to legal awareness an issue that has long puzzled metaphysicians. The general issue is that of eventidentity, drawing the boundaries of events so that we can tell when there is one event and when there are two. The September 11th version of that issue is: how many occurrences of insured events were there on September 11, 2001 in New York? Was the collapse of the two World Trade Center Towers one event, despite the two separate airliners crashing into each tower? Or were these two separate insured events?

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