Costa Cruises have signed with Italian consumer groups an agreement to offer about 11,000 euros in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard the capsized Costa Concordia vessel near the Italian island of Giglio.
Roma / NationalTurk – Costa Cruises company has agreed to pay 11,000 euros compensation for items lost and any psychological damages to each of more than 3000 passenger who suffered no physical injuries. The cost of the cruise vessel and all transportation will be covered as well. Passengers injured while abandoning Costa Concordia will be dealt with individually wit a higher compensation.
Compensation procedures have certain conditions though. The victimized passangers who accept the compensation offer must agree to drop all future legal actions against Costa Cruises company, according to the agreement. Children will receive the same financial settlement as adults, and passengers will be paid within a week of accepting the offer.
Costa Cruises to compensate Concordia passengers : Consumer groups warn !
Codacons, the Italian consumer group that did not sign the compensation agreement with, recommended Concordia passengers not to accept the deal and urged them to undergo a check to see if they suffered any psychological trauma as a result of the shipwreck and the rescue, according to Carlo Rienzi, the Codacons group’s president.
Codacons is collecting names to file a class action suit in Miami against parent company Carnival Plc, requesting 125,000 euros for each passenger.
Costa, a unit of cruise operator Carnival Corp, will also reimburse passengers the full costs of their cruise, travel expenses and any medical expenses sustained after the grounding.
Costa Concordia Passengers to be compensated ?
The agreement was announced Friday after a day of negotiations between Costa representatives and Italian consumer groups representing 3,206 people from 61 countries who suffered no physical harm when the Costa Concordia hit a reef on Jan. 13 and capsized.”The deal concerns some 3,000 passengers from 61 countries, including some 900 Italians,” Adoc, one of the consumer groups that negotiated the agreement.
Passengers and crew are free to pursue legal action if they aren’t satisfied with the deal.
Costa Cruises has blamed contoversial Captain Francesco Schettino for committing “grave errors of judgement” by steering the ship too close to Giglio on an “unauthorised manoeuvre”.
Capt Schettino is currently under house arrest in Italy on suspicion of manslaughter, which he denies.
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