DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts recently accepted a check
to DC 37 for more than $1 million, the final reimbursement for the
unions losses due to the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Ernesta G. Procope, president and CEO of insurance broker E.G. Bowman
Co., presented the payment. The check represented the final installment
of the more than $6 million that DC 37 received from the St. Paul
Insurance Co.
The insurance repaid the union for the cost of repairing the extensive
damage suffered by its 125 Barclay St. headquarters, which is but
one block north of the disaster site. The payments also covered the
expense of continuing to provide services to members as the building
was rehabilitated, which required relocating hundreds of employees
to other sites.
Ms. Roberts praised the work of Real Estate Manager Ralph Pepe and
the Bowman firm for restoring our members money.
The E.G. Bowman firm is the countrys largest minority- and woman-owned
insurance brokerage.