$64M more coming for spill claims
Roughly 7,300 residents and businesses harmed by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will get more than $64 million in additional payments because their claims with BP’s $20 billion compensation fund were shortchanged or wrongfully denied, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
An independent audit of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility found “significant errors” in its processing of claims that led to applicants receiving less than what they were entitled to under GCCF procedures, the federal agency said.
Claimants eligible for the additional payments should be receiving them in the next week to 10 days, a Justice Department spokesman said.
AP
4/19/12