Following the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one attorney stands ready to fight Goliath for Panama City, Fla. residents who have waited nearly four years to receive their long-anticipated reimbursement checks from BP. Panama City attorney Bill Price represents many who have pending claims and says his clients’ luck is about to change. ”The natives are getting restless,” said Price, who runs a small law practice with one other lawyer and only a handful of employees. ”Most of the victims of the oil spill have not been compensated from the 2010 disaster.”
Clean-up workers exposed to the Corexit 9500 and 9527 that BP sprayed on them have become very sick with respiratory problems, skin disorders and other illnesses, and now that the court has put the Medical Class Settlement into effect, Price says, “they can finally get some much needed treatment and a little bit of money.” When asked how much these are worth, Price points out that even though every case differs, the medical claims pay up to $60,700, with a chance to revisit the injuries if such illnesses persist.
Price says the most common claims are from recreational fishermen, which is everyone with a fishing license at the time of the oil spill. According to some estimates, more than 100,000 people in the Panhandle of Florida qualify for these claims. Price says these recreational fishermen are getting checks in the range of $2,000-$30,000 each.
Price’s office staff handles thousands of recreational fishing claims, real property claims of homes on the beach, businesses and injured clean-up workers. After years of deliberation about how to settle the losses, BP is beginning to pay small claims. Although the bigger business claims are still being argued in the Appeals Courts, recreational fishing claims, real property claims and now injury claims are being paid. “And it’s about time,” Price says. “Thousands of people have lost everything as a result of the oil spill, so BP finally paying out something on these smaller claims is the least they could do.”
The deadline to file a claim was April 22, 2014, but has recently been extended until later in 2014. It is not know what the final deadline will be due to the ongoing appeals.
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