Category Archives: Victim Claims
Against a backdrop of damaged fisheries and a looming oil spill trial, BP is doubling “final settlement” offers to commercial crabbers and shrimpers who have had their livelihoods destroyed by the Gulf oil spill. It seems BP has joined the rest of the world in realizing the once-thriving Gulf seafood industry is in tatters, and will remain that way for years. Although on its face the announcement of fairer compensation [...]
Read More »We’ve finally arrived at that place where nothing BP does shocks us anymore, no matter how offensive or inane. After so many forays beyond the pale, the ability to shock recedes. How do you continue to offend and outrage when you’ve already erased all ethical expectations and broken all boundaries of common decency? More than a year into the nightmare that is the Gulf oil spill, we have become completely [...]
Read More »Over a year into the Gulf nightmare, who’s advocating for the victims of BP’s massive oil spill? Who’s going to ensure they’re made whole? Claims czar Kenneth Feinberg tried, rather unconvincingly, to assume the role of independent “victim champion” when he became administer of BP’s $20 billion compensation fund back in August 2010. But the “neutral arbiter” act didn’t fly – some little detail about BP paying Mr. Feinberg a [...]
Read More »Claims czar Kenneth Feinberg is nearing the first anniversary of his tenure as the administrator of BP’s $20 billion victim compensation fund – and he’s congratulating himself for a job well done. As many of you might imagine, Gulf Coast residents see things a bit differently. While Mr. Feinberg pats himself on the back, many spill victims struggle to understand why their “final settlement” claims have been denied. Others try [...]
Read More »A flurry of legal claims were filed on the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion Wednesday, as people harmed by the oil spill rushed to put their names in for a trial scheduled for next February, companies involved in the disaster filed suit against each other, and the state of Louisiana expanded its claim as legal deadlines loomed. About 70,000 people filed claims in an obscure maritime [...]
Read More »NEW ORLEANS – Relatives of the 11 men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are flying over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, back to the epicenter of the worst offshore oil spill in the nation’s history. Meanwhile, on land, vigils were scheduled in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to mark the spill. On the night of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, a rig operated by Transocean [...]
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