AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR LAWYERS: VICTIMS SUE THAILAND, U.S., ACCOR OVER TSUNAMI! Mon Mar 7, 9:20 AM ET VIENNA (Reuters) – U.S. and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, U.S. forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December’s Tsunami disaster, a lawyer said Monday. The lawsuit was filed Friday at a New York district court on behalf of tsunami victims by lawyers including U.S. attorney Edward Fagan, internationally renowned for 1990s lawsuits against Swiss banks over Holocaust-era accounts. It demanded an account of their actions on Dec. 26. ‘We expect a hearing within 30 days,’ Austrian lawyer Gerhard Podovsovnik told Reuters.
March 9th, 2005 at 2:09 am
AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR LAWYERS: VICTIMS SUE THAILAND, U.S., ACCOR OVER TSUNAMI! Mon Mar 7, 9:20 AM ET VIENNA (Reuters) – U.S. and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, U.S. forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December’s Tsunami disaster, a lawyer said Monday. The lawsuit was filed Friday at a New York district court on behalf of tsunami victims by lawyers including U.S. attorney Edward Fagan, internationally renowned for 1990s lawsuits against Swiss banks over Holocaust-era accounts. It demanded an account of their actions on Dec. 26. ‘We expect a hearing within 30 days,’ Austrian lawyer Gerhard Podovsovnik told Reuters.
March 9th, 2005 at 6:40 am
By the way, the US still has one of the lowest per capita figures for tsunami donations, out of all the highest donators.