Under instruction from the financial authorities, the industry is now going back through past sales and alerting customers to the possibility that they can now make a claim for compensation - a process which is generating a huge bill for the UK's banks.
So if a flight is delayed a claim for compensation can't be made against the airline?
Consumers might have had their eye off the ball at the time, but once they realised they had a claim for compensation, many were fully aware of their rights.
There is a secondary claim for compensation for past problems caused by odours omitted from the site.
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Ms Risdale has since lost a compensation claim for disability discrimination.
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"Chelsea Football Club is obviously pleased that the Appeals Committee has vindicated the club's position and opened the door for a compensation claim and sporting sanctions before FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber, " the league leaders said in a statement.
Physical exertion is now a struggle for Mrs Brown, who settled her claim for compensation with the hospital.
Last week it emerged PC Jones had filed a compensation claim against Nuns' Bridges garage owner Steve Jones for failing to ensure she was "reasonably safe" while attending a suspected break-in on 25 August last year.
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Villagran and Bianco have also been unable to provide CNN with any written contract that sets forth a relationship with Yacob in relation to the transfer to support their claim for compensation.
Claimants for compensation will have to prove before a judge that they really owned the land they claim, and that it was unjustly seized (a flexible concept: a judge might accept that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza had indeed awarded himself legal title to some land he had got hold of, but that its confiscation after he was overthrown in 1979 was fair enough).
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