A company ordered to pay $5 million in reparations to Whakaari/White Island eruption victims and fined $517,000 has just declared insolvency. Shareholders in.
American couple Rick and Ivy Reed were among 25 people who survived the Whakaari/White Island tragedy. A document from their civil claim for damages has.
A multimillion-dollar legal suit taken by several families affected by the Whaakari/White Island tragedy could be settled out of court as early as next.
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A New Zealand court on Friday ordered the tour booking agents and managers of an island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people to pay survivors more than NZ$10 million ($6.1 million) and fined them around NZ$2.6 million. Tour operators White Island Tours, Volcanic Air Safaris, Kahu New Zealand and Aerius, along with the corporate owner of the island, Whakaari Management Ltd, were found to have not sufficiently ensured the safety of visitors to the island, court filings showed. There were 47 people on White Island, also known by the Maori name of Whakaari, when the volcano erupted on Dec. 9, 2019.