Chapter 510 - 495: Mr. Li Arrived
Tianya Group’s issue was resolved, so Ye Chen immediately informed Li Ruo. Upon hearing the news, Li Ruo asked Lin Ziwen to call the families of the victims to discuss the settlement solutions at Black Water Security Company. While Lin Ziwen was making the calls, Li Ruo began to print out the agreement proposals. After the families received the money, they would need to sign a contract. Once they took the money, they could no longer hold the company responsible for anything in the future, especially since the company wasn’t at fault in the first place. The company had simply assisted out of humanitarian concern to find the perpetrator.
Soon, the families of the deceased and injured arrived at Black Water Security Company. One by one, they stood at the entrance waiting for Ye Chen to give everyone an explanation.
Lin Ziwen and Li Ruo hurriedly arrived at the scene, and when they got there, a large number of family members were already gathered at the entrance.
"Mr. Li is here! Mr. Li is here!" Cheers erupted from the crowd. With Li Ruo present, everything was easier to discuss. The reason everyone had been standing there immobile was mainly because of the psychological fear they harbored toward the Heavenly Reversal Gang. Now that someone fair was present, everyone felt more at ease.
"Make way, everybody!" Lin Ziwen quickly cleared a path for Li Ruo as she headed toward Black Water Security Company.
At that moment, Da Xia, with a few little brothers, walked to the door carrying several suitcases. Ye Chen, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, swaggered out, glanced over everyone, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, today is the third day, which is when I promised I would give you an answer."
"Mr. Ye, tell us, how should this be handled?" someone from among the families shouted.
"The two deceased from the cafeteria poisoning will receive a one-time compensation of RMB 500,000 each. The injured, depending on the disability certificates issued by the hospital, will receive compensation ranging from RMB 300,000 to RMB 30,000!" Ye Chen glanced over the crowd and asked, "Any objections?"
Immediate discussions broke out among the families. A one-time compensation of RMB 500,000 for each deceased was definitely not low among China’s accident-related compensations.
Don’t think a life is very valuable, especially in a populous country like China where human life is worth less than a dog’s. What’s the real price of death? No one knows for sure. But, with the following examples, we can get a rough idea of the cost of death in China. According to the "Interim Regulations on Compensation for Bodily Injury to Passengers in Domestic Air Transport," the highest compensation per deceased passenger is RMB 70,000; according to the "Railway Passenger Transport Damage Compensation Regulations," it’s up to RMB 40,000.
Someone calculated using the living expenses standards released by a certain city’s Economic Planning Commission that a farmer’s life is worth RMB 14,000 and a city resident’s life RMB 54,750. In the major gas explosion accident at Chen Family’s Mountain Coal Mine in Shanxi, how much could the lives of over 160 miner brothers be worth? It’s hard to pinpoint an exact figure, but for reference, during the Guangdong "7.17 Nandan Mining Disaster" in 2001 which attracted media involvement and significant exposure, each deceased received a compensation of RMB 40,000 for their life.
Sometimes, a human life really isn’t worth as much as a dog’s.