The Insurance Compensation Consortium has already paid 31 percent of the claims filed by those affected by the Danas in Ibiza, as reported by the senator for the Pitiusas, Juanjo Ferrer. To date, 2.7 million euros have been paid to companies and individuals in the municipality, while the agency expects that within a maximum period of four months 80 percent of the victims will have received their compensation.
Follow-up meeting in Madrid
Ferrer held a meeting this Tuesday in Madrid with the general director of Insurance and Pension Funds and president of the Compensation Consortium, José Antonio Fernández de Pinto, and with the general director of the Consortium itself, Flavia Rodríguez-Ponga Salamanca, in order to evaluate the progress of the proceedings and to address the concerns of those affected.
During the meeting, Consortium officials explained that damage to vehicles is the most complex case. The high number of people affected -about 1,300 in Ibiza alone-has caused a collapse in the workshops, which makes it difficult to accurately assess the damage and delays the closure of some files.
Chained storms and unavoidable delays
Another factor that has delayed the process is that the different storms that affected the island occurred with little time difference, a fact that complicates the identification and categorization of the damage of each episode, according to Ferrer after his meeting in Madrid.
Despite these difficulties, the senator highlighted the “good performance of the Consortium”, which, he said, “is offering all possible resources so that the affected people and companies can recover normality as soon as possible“.
Aid does not depend on the disaster area
Ferrer also recalled that the payment of indemnities by the Consortium is independent of the declaration of a catastrophe zone, so there will be no delays linked to the absence or presence of such declaration.
