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The Gulf Coast Claims Facility began accepting claims on 23 August 2010. At the time it was handed over to Kenneth Feinberg, BP had already paid out $375 million. [14] Almost 19,000 claims were submitted in the first week. Of those, roughly 1,200 claims were compensated, totaling about $6 million, the remaining applicants "lacked proper ...
Donald Vidrine, who was the ranking BP representative on Deepwater Horizon, citing ill health refuses to testify at Coast Guard hearing into the accident. [115] July 22; Ships and personnel leave the spill site as Tropical Storm Bonnie approaches. [116] [117] NOAA reopens one-third of closed area of Gulf to fishing. [118] July 24
[263] [264] [265] The U.S. Travel Association estimated that the economic impact of the oil spill on tourism across the Gulf Coast over a three-year period could exceed approximately $23 billion, in a region that supports over 400,000 travel industry jobs generating $34 billion in revenue annually. [266] [267]
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill resulted in an onslaught of litigation. Litigation commenced almost immediately after the explosion and oil spill. By May 27, 2010, Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon, said in testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that it was defendant in 120 lawsuits, of which more than 80 were class actions seeking payment for financial ...
Critics of BP's (BP) program to compensate Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims took aim at Kenneth Feinberg on Monday as he officially started his first day as the Gulf Coast Claims Facility's ...
The United States Coast Guard immediately launched a rescue operation involving two Coast Guard cutters, four helicopters, and a rescue plane. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The two cutters continued searching through the night and by the morning of April 22, the Coast Guard had surveyed nearly 1,940 square miles (5,000 km 2 ). [ 48 ]
NOAA reopens 5,144 square miles (13,320 km 2) of Gulf waters to commercial and recreational finfish fishing (along west Florida coast). Another 52,395 square miles (135,700 km 2) remain closed – down 22 percent from its height. [30] [31]
The Gulf Coast Claims Facility will today begin accepting personal and business claims from those affected by BP's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. BP stopped longer accepting claims last week ...