Carnival announces Costa Concordia insurance will recover $851 million

According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Carnival Corp. has posted $851 million in recovered funds from its insurance policies as being among its first quarter assets for 2012. Carnival has announced that “substantially all” of the amount recovered through insurance are connected to the Costa Concordia disaster, which occurred on January 13, when the cruise ship ran aground and then capsized off of the Italian island of Giglio. In early March, the cruise liner company had announced that its first quarter net losses for 2011 were…

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Moody’s data shows insurance claims from Costa Concordia may break $1billion mark

According to Moody’s Investors Service, the insurance losses from the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship from Carnival Corp off the Italian coast could break the $1 billion mark once all of the injuries and environmental damage are included in the tally. James Eck, the senior credit officer at Moody’s published a note that stated that the sunken ship “marks the first major insured loss of 2012 and will result in a drag on first-quarter 2012 earnings for affected firms.” Though the ship’s damage, itself will cost an estimated $500 million,…

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