Bereaved Family in Shock as Insurer Concedes Lisbon Funicular Was Unreliable
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Fidelity challenged a claim for compensation of about EUR 1 million for death in the September 2025 accident, which resulted in 16 deaths and 24 injuries.
the Fidelity, insurer of Carris, argued that "a disaster like that could not, at the time it occurred, be considered something totally unpredictable"
In a contest to the compensation demanded by the family of one of the victims, the insurance company Fidelidad rejects the argument that the accident was unpredictable: to date, the Elevator of Glory could not be seen as a highly reliable means of transport, defends
Insurer Fidelidad refused to pay the indemnity required by the family of one of the 16 fatal victims of the accident with Gloria's elevator, claiming that the risk should already be known and that the time of suffering to death was reduced.
Carris' insurance company contested the compensation claim relating to one of the fatalities in the Glória elevator accident in Lisbon, stating that this means of transport "was not highly reliable," causing "perplexity" among the bereaved family. In statements to the Lusa news agency, Nuno Pinto Coelho de Faria, lawyer for the family of Isaque Adam, widower of Ana Paula Lopes, a worker at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa who died in th…
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