It was telling when a veteran NY1 anchor responded to the news that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had granted a $500,000 death benefit to employees who died of the coronavirus by telling her colleague who reported it that the amount seemed "generous."
MTA management deserved credit for making the decision to presume that every case of the virus was contracted on the job. But it did not pull the figure out of thin air: it was arrived at late last year under a contract deal with Transport Workers Union Local 100 that doubled the previous sum paid out for line-of-duty deaths.
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