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Costa Survivors to Get $14K Each

16th body found in cruise ship disaster

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2012 7:06 AM CST
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(Newser) – Well, it's better than 30% off your next cruise: Costa Concordia survivors will each walk away with $14,400 in compensation, says an Italian tourism industry group. The payout covers damaged and lost property, as well as psychological distress, and includes reimbursement for the trip plus travel costs, CNN reports; it will be distributed to all survivors, whatever their age. The company is also establishing a counseling service.

Costa will provide separate compensation to injured passengers who needed immediate treatment and families of those killed in the disaster. Meanwhile, the search for the missing continues, with a 16th body discovered Tuesday. That leaves 16 others still missing.

This picture taken on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 shows unidentified people abandoning the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia.
This picture taken on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 shows unidentified people abandoning the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia.   (AP Photo/Giuseppe Modesti)
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Kookey90
Jan 29, 2012 5:43 PM CST
$14K? I find this insulting. I say forget the 30% on the next cruise; it should be free and on top of that offer all passengers including minors $50K for their inconvenience, plus the cost of any medical expenses and for  personal items that the passengers can prove were lost in the ship wreck. This should avoid any further bad publicity to the Costa Concordia folks, prevent any long litigation and hard feelings; everyone should be able to move on. The compensation for the folks whom were killed will need to be settled separately. If this drags on in the courts people and potential passengers will take note.
littlewolfplaying
Jan 28, 2012 11:34 AM CST
ok if $14000 is for  a surviving passenger,how much for a dead passenger . i hate money  
save-the-whales
Jan 27, 2012 8:16 PM CST
I could imagine ,  Costa thought they could get away with it  light by offering a possible   Plan A -30% discount and some would of taken it , but when there was talk of class action it uped the anti , so Costa went to a possible    Plan B - Approach every individual seperatly pretend to sympathise with them and want to offer a token cash amount $14000and get takers to sign a waver of further court action if they accepted the money , thats better than $140000 or more the courts would of settled , then there is a possible  Plan C- negotiate  anything to keep the people from getting Costa into court by increasing the cash amount in a number of steps until they have reached a ceiling below of how much it would cost Costa to fight them in court and then there would be a possible    Plan D- If Costa did end up having to fight them in court make sure there is plenty of rumours , inuendos,blamegames, missing files and  records , controvosy and mystery witnesses.           The motto is " If you can't convince them confuse them "  that way the court case will go on for years and hopefully if some of the plaintives haven't died of old age the rest might give up in frustration .

 
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