Stricken Cruise Ship’s Operator Offers Settlements to Passengers
The operator of the Costa Concordia luxury cruise liner, which crashed and partly sank two weeks ago with more than 4,200 people aboard, made its first attempt on Friday to limit the legal consequences of the shipwreck and chaotic evacuation, offering a settlement of about $14,400 to each uninjured passenger.
The cruise line operator, Costa Cruises, a unit of the Carnival Corporation, which is based in Miami and is the world’s largest cruise ship company, said that in addition to the settlement, it was reimbursing each passenger for the full cost of the cruise, travel expenses and any related medical expenses, at an estimated cost of nearly $4,000 each.
The Jan. 13 shipwreck off the coast of Giglio Island, near Italy’s scenic Tuscan coast, left at least 16 people dead and at least 16 still missing, and has become a major black eye for the cruise ship industry.
The 950-foot vessel, half-submerged on its starboard side, poses a threat of becoming an environmental disaster because of its half-million gallons of fuel and other potential pollutants, some of which were already leeching into the Giglio Island shallows, a marine sanctuary. Salvage workers were scheduled to start extracting the fuel this weekend.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/world/europe/costa-cruises-offers-settlement-to-shipwreck-passengers.html
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...since that is what my dependents would lose had Capt Dildo succeeded in killing me.
That's more than 14k... 
