Miami man wins $30M verdict against Expedia over confiscated property in Cuba

Miami man wins $30M verdict against Expedia over confiscated property in Cuba

In a first such decision, a Miami federal jury has found that travel booking company Expedia Group owes $29.85 million to a Cuban-American family in damages for having promoted and sold bookings to Floridians at hotels in land confiscated by the Cuban government during the early days of Fidel Castro’s revolution. The case was filed by Mario Echevarría, one of the heirs of a Cuban family that claimed ownership of Cayo Coco, a small key off the no…

Miami man wins $30M verdict against Expedia over confiscated Cuban land

In a first, a federal jury has awarded damages to a man whose family's property was confiscated during the Cuban revolution and is now a resort.

Breaking news:Miami man wins $30M verdict against Expedia over confiscated property in Cuba.

A compensation requested by Cuban-American citizen Mario Echevarría since 2019 under the Helms-Burton Act by the US travel operator Expedia Group has now finally been awarded by a US court. The amount due to him due to the use of his reservation system for hotels on land confiscated by the Cuban regime in Cayo Coco, Ciego de Ávila, amounts to [...] The post Tourism Cuba: Helms-Burton verdict against Expedia first appeared on latinapress News.