Gulf Oil Spill Claims

Disaster in the Gulf: So What Are We Doing About It?

Rocky Kistner | Posted 12.06.2011

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In the Gulf, new information is confirming fears that fish and wildlife -- and millions of people on the Coast -- are being seriously impacted by the 4.9 million barrels of BP oil spewed from the ocean deep last year.

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Top Interior Official Jumps To Firm Representing BP Over Gulf Oil Spill

AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The former chief of staff to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has taken a job with one of the law firms representing BP in legal proceedin...

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Special Master Sought To Oversee Oil Spill Claims, Kenneth Feinberg 'Too Slow'

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 09.24.2011

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The lead attorneys for people and businesses suing BP over last year's Gulf oil spill want a federal judge to appoint a special master to oversee the ...

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Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund Will Be Audited To Speed Up Process

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 09.19.2011

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WASHINGTON — An independent audit will be performed on the $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf...

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BP: Oil Spill Victims Should Not Get Any More Payments

AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 09.07.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — BP is arguing that most victims of last year's Gulf oil spill should not get any more payouts for future losses because the hardes...

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Oil Spill Fund Czar: No Claims Filed On Cleanup Illnesses

AP | Posted 08.07.2011

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The attorney overseeing the payments from a $20 billion compensation fund says he hasn't seen any claims filed suggesting that the...

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BP Loses Personal Data Of 13,000 Oil Spill Claimants

AP | Posted 05.29.2011

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NEW ORLEANS -- BP says one of its employees lost a laptop containing personal data belonging to thousands of residents who filed claims for compensati...

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BP Hikes Claim Czar's Monthly Pay To $1.25 Million

AP | By HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Documents provided by the administrator of BP's claims fund for Gulf oil spill victims show the oil giant agreed to increase his ...

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Oil Spill Claims Fund Under Fire

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama vowed during a White House speech last June that the $20 billion he helped coax out of BP for an oil spill ...

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Justice Dept. To Oil Spill Claims Czar: Loosen The Purse Strings

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — The job of the administrator of the $20 billion fund for Gulf oil spill victims is not to preserve money or return it to BP, and he sh...

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Oil Spill Fund Plagued With Over 7,000 Fraudulent Claims

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — The $20 billion fund responsible for compensating victims of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill has received more than 7,000 potentiall...

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BP Oil Spill Claim Denials See HUGE Spike

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — Denied claims for Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims are rising dramatically because of a flood of new filings coming in wi...

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BP Spill Fund Slowed By Inflated Claims, Fraud, Administrator Says

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — BP's $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill has been inundated with inflated or unsupported claims an...

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Gulf Oil Spill: New Guidelines Could Rule Out Many Oil Claims

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI — A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho that had to sw...

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BP Claims Czar: Oil Spill Victim Payments No Longer Affected By Proximity

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The administrator of the fund doling out money to Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims says geographic proximity to oil-impac...

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Many Denied Oil Spill Claims Will Get A Second Chance

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The administrator of BP's $20 billion fund to compensate people harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says some whose cl...

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New Guidelines Could Rule Out Many Oil Spill Claims

Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI (Associated Press) - A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho t...

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BP Plays Deadbeat On Nearly 40,000 Oil Spill Claims

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Sheryl Lindsay's wedding planner business is on the brink, crumbling with each cancellation over concerns about oil. Brides...

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BP Confirms That Thousands Of Claims Decisions Will Be Deferred

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this morning, we reported that BP is delaying its decisions about many damage claims from the Gulf oil spill. We wrote that the company is put...

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BP Leaves Many Damage Claims Waiting in Limbo

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP appears to be delaying decisions about the validity of many claims for damages from the Gulf oil spill, leaving claimants frustrated by bureaucrati...

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