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Costa Concordia Offering Survivors Lump Sum

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    FBN's Adam Shapiro on the Costa Concordia offering a lump sum of $14,400 for survivors of the sunken cruise liner who were uninjured during the crash.

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What's a new day and there's a new offers coast to cruises is now offering some on injured passengers a lump sum of money -- compensate for.

-- just lost baggage psychological trauma when Adam Shapiro has more on that's out of what is the latest offer.

It's 141456.

Dollars roughly 111000 euros lump sum covers losses baggage.

Other affects my left on the -- as well as personal damages now.

This settlement only applies to those passengers who were not injured in got off the ship safely obviously.

Passengers who suffered injury roughly a hundred people and the families of those who died aboard the ship.

There is no settlement that's being negotiated actually by.

This original settlement same people negotiated by.

Italian consumer advocacy groups also now negotiating a settlement which has no binding affect you don't have to take part in it if you choose to reject the settlement.

You can still pursue claims in court if you accept their set settlement.

Then this is it and you're done and they expect that several of them will except this -- but this is only the uninjured passengers as for those future claims are already lawsuits on both sides of the Atlantic Italy and the United States.

The lawyers say you get a lot more money from this than 141456.

Box you thanks for the update out of -- there in the new.