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Costa Cruises Offers $14 Thousand to Uninjured Survivors: Is It Enough? (VIDEO)
Nineteen people are still missing and yet I was reading on ABC today that Costa Cruises is ready to offer money to the uninjured survivors of the recent Costa Concordia cruise ship tragedy.
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The offer is apparently being forged on behalf of more than 32-hundred of the passengers and negotiated by an Italian consumer group: $14,406 or the eqivalent of 11,000 euros to be given to each of the uninjured passengers to compensate them for the loss of their luggage and any mental anguish suffered. This, in addition to medical expenses and remibursement for travel expenses and the cost of the cruise itself.
Not all of the passengers have signed on. Some are uninterested in any legal action at all while others are pursuring something much greater.
$14-thousand dollars as a trade off for the experience of this tragedy. I’m not sure what a ‘fair’ dollar amount would be…. but it seems to me that the parent company, Carnival, would be getting off fairly easy if this many passengers agree to this…. This feels like a modern day Titanic… while there were certainly fewer lives lost and there was the benefit of current techonology, it is horrifying to imagine being in this situation – not to mention…. being abandoned by your Captain?
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LG commented on Jan 28 12 at 12:44 pmLook, i’m sure it was an awful experience…but not everything in life can be compenstated with money. IF the money is being used for a medical injury and there is a specific dollar amount on the care needed (i..e a broken leg which might take x # of years to heal)…otherwise…..a certain amount for pain and suffering is reasonable….but i hate the idea taht everytime something bad happens, it gives us the right to a windfall (again, I”m talking about ppl who made it off the boat unscathed for all practical purposes). I think I would just be truly greatful to have made it off the boat alive. To sue the captain and carnival as a way of inflicting punishemnt on them—that’s one thing—-and I”m in favor of sending a message that will get through. I wouldn’t do tha thought so I could receive monetary gain.
esterlulady commented on Jan 28 12 at 1:42 pmI don’t know about “mental anguish” compensation. But let’s do some math: Original Cruise Costs + Unexpected ER Trip in Foreign Country + Unexpected Stay in Foreign Country + Unexpected Airfare out of Foreign Country…Seems to me that $14,000 would get spent pretty quickly on just reimbursement of expenses and breach of contract alone. Not to mention loss of personal effects: jewelry, computers, phones, clothing….I would probably be traveling with at least $8,000 in value of all of the above. Are the passengers just expected to eat this cost? I would be happy to be alive as well, OBVIOUSLY, and I agree that STUFF (ehehm) happens. But if I were expected to personally re-coop from something like this financially, it would put our family in a major hole that we would have a hard time getting out of. I HATE law suits. But I would expect to be reimbursed for my losses and unforeseen costs.
Diera commented on Jan 28 12 at 9:39 pmYou would be traveling with $8,000 worth of stuff?! I’m not sure I *own* $8,000 worth of stuff, if you don’t count things that I obviously can’t travel with like my car and my house.
Suzie commented on Jan 28 12 at 10:23 pmYeah, Ester…if losing crap you’d carry on a cruise with you that you paid probably a few thousand for itself would put your family in a major hole that you’d have a hard time getting out of, maybe you’re living beyond your means? You say it would put you in a hole, but say you’d be traveling with 8K worth of goods on your person. Really? Doesn’t make sense to me.
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