After years on ongoing court case, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have to pay, settling at $657.5 million to responders who were sickened due to the dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.

The settlement was disclosed Thursday evening by the WTC Captive Insurance Co., a special body working to indemnify the city and its contractors against potential legal action as they moved to clean up the site after the 9/11 terror attacks.

The money is reported to be granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency fund of almost $1bn that the city controls.

However, the settlement still awaits an approval from a judge and the workers themselves,

The agreement is revealed to make the city and other companies represented by the insurer liable for a minimum of $575 million, with more money available to the sick if certain conditions are met.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg tagging the agreement as fair and obvious resolution to a complex set of circumstances, quoted, "The resolution of the World Trade Center litigation will allow the first responders and workers to be compensated for injuries suffered following their work at Ground Zero.”