Tara Air pays compensation
…almost a year after the crash
Update Legal heirs of the 18 Bhutanese passengers who died in the Tara Air crash on December 15 last year received their insurance claims of USD 20,000 each on December 5.
The disaster management department director Namgay Wangchuk said the Zimpon’s office was informed that the claims was deposited into the bank accounts of the heirs.
The claims come almost a year after the air crash. Soon after the crash, insurance companies raised issues on “identification” of the Bhutanese passengers, who had travelled in Nepalese names.
But Tara Air’s chief executive officer Vijay Shrestra had assured that the claims process would be expedited and that the “identification” was not a problem.
Airlines, he had explained have legal obligations to passengers, called passenger legal liability which is USD 20,000 a passenger and USD 20 a kilogram for baggage and cargo in case of such disasters.
It’s the insurance companies that Tara Air is insured for, who would pay the claims. Tara Air had begun processing the claims about two weeks ago with the Nepal Rashtra Bank, the Central Bank of Nepal after it started receiving funds from its underwriters.
Source: kuenselonline