HONOLULU (AP) _ A court approved a 1-point-8 million dollar class action settlement between Hilton Corporation and guests who stayed in a mold-infested Waikiki building the hotel chain operated.

Guests who stayed at the Kalia Tower at the Hilton Hawaiian Village between June 14 and July 23 in 2002 will be eligible to receive funds or travel coupons in the settlement.

Attorneys representing the guests say that covers about 29-hundred people spread across almost every state and many countries around the world.

Under the agreement, Hilton will pay the guests either 150 dollars in travel coupons or 50 dollars in cash for each night they spent at the hotel.

Hilton blamed design and construction defects for the mold, saying these fed the excessive humidity that allowed the mold the grow.
 

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