As the question says just provide modalities for compensating the victims of the accident. Do not try to attribute reasons for the cause of the accident, i. e. who is wrong or responsible for the accident. Try to come up with the various kinds of victims and decide what they get. To say that everybody that was killed should get the same amount is not realistic. Think about the families of those involved in September 11 disaster. Did all the families get the same amount?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)