Restaurants Offer Hepatitis Insurance
Reuters
HONG KONG —
Shanghai’s four biggest restaurants have insured their customers against hepatitis to boost business, the official China News Service said Friday.
The news agency, monitored in Hong Kong, said restaurant business dropped sharply since an outbreak of hepatitis in the East China city last October. Under the insurance program, anyone who contracts hepatitis because of food sold by the restaurants will receive a maximum compensation of $2,700, equivalent to 10 years’ wages of an average factory worker, it said.
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