Heirs of Armenian Genocide victims to receive insurance payments

California Court of Appeals decision of the declared unconstitutional the law on the payment of insurance to heirs of Armenian Genocide victims in the Ottoman Turkey, in 1915, will not touch insurance company launched “AXA”.

Recall that Armenia’s ministry of justice has completed its part of the process of making a statement on the case of the French insurance agency “AXA”.

Armenia’s ministry of justice has organized consultations and sent inquiries addressed to “Kurkjian and Ouzounian v. AXA Settlement Administrator AXA Settlement Claim fund 900 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 614 Los Angeles, CA 90017”. All the applications have been sent to the regulatory body before January 7, 2008.

On the basis of sent requests the court will make a decision whether to recognize human the heir of Armenian Genocide victims or not. According to the executive director of AXA’s regulatory body B. Gartalyan, the trial will be finished before the end of this year, and AXA will liaise with the authors of the statement without the mediation of Armenia’s ministry of justice.

The complainants will be informed of the decision of the court and the amount of insurance payment by letters, the press office of Armenia’s ministry of justice said.