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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:32 pm    Post subject: Oil spill compensation claims top 200 million dollars: BP Reply with quote

Oil spill compensation claims top 200 million dollars: BP
AFP, Fri Jul 16, 2:17 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – British energy giant BP has paid out more than 200 million dollars in compensation to Gulf of Mexico residents affected by a months-long oil spill, the company said on Friday.

The firm said it had offered some 32,000 claimants one or more payments over the last 10 weeks as it tries to assuage anger and frustration over the environmental and economic disaster.

But some 61,000 claims have not been processed, either because they lacked sufficient information, or claim adjusters were unable to contact the individuals or businesses that filed them, BP said.


Continue reading: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100716/bs_afp/usoilenvironmentpollutionbpclaims_20100716181802

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