Family get €6k bill to return body after insurance issues

The grieving family of a woman who died on holiday was hit with a €6,000 bill to release her body from airport storage after a last-minute problem with her travel insurance.

Paula Healy’s brother, Tony Nation, said the family felt as if her body was “held hostage, held to ransom” until they paid up.

“If we had known this last week, we would have moved heaven and earth to resolve it,” he said.