NT$6.64 million in compensation for each tour bus victim

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-25
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau said Monday an initial settlement offer will give a compensation of NT$6.64 million (about US$207,500) to the family of each victim who died in the tour bus blaze accident on National Highway 1 on July 19.

After negotiations between the families of the victims and the authorities, an initial consensus on compensation has been reached, the Tourism Bureau said.

The compensation will come from insurance claims totaling NT$6.64 million arising from the accident, the bureau said.

The amount includes the claims from the three different insurances—the travel agency liability insurance, the charter bus liability insurance, and the passenger liability insurance—with each accounting for NT$ 2 million, as well as NT$640,000 for each victim from another passenger related insurance, the Tourism Bureau said.     [FULL  STORY]