Chinese insurance companies are checking the information of policy holders
who died in the Sunday-morning plane crash in north China's Inner Mongolia.
The Baotou Life Insurance Co. has organized its 100 staff into several groups
to check-up on information of policy holders through Internet.
Initial investigation showed 25 of the 47 plane crash victims had bought
accident insurance. One passenger bought two policies. The families of each
victim will receive a compensation of 400,000yuan (48,192 US dollars).
Four passengers had bought policies of the Ping An Insurance Co.Ltd. The
company is making investigations in accordance with the ID card numbers of the
victims in an effort to provide compensation to the family member of the victims
as soon as possible.
A CRJ-200 plane, carrying 47 passengers and six crew members from Baotou to
Shanghai, crashed in a park lake in Baotou about 8:20 a.m. Sunday shortly after
it took off. All of the people aboardand a man on the ground were killed. The
remains of 54 victims, including one from Indonesia, have been found.