Der 20 Milliarden U$-Dollares schwere ESCROW-Fund wurde ja von Anfang an so bemessen, dass er nur für die Entschädigung Jener ausreichen sollte, die sich von British Petroleum ABFINDEN lassen, an Statt den KLAGE-Weg zu beschreiten. - Entsprechend wurde (wohl ein wenig zu idealistisch) davon ausgegangen, dass innerhalb der Gruppe derer Abfindungs-Bereiten kein Streit-Potential sei, sondern nur bei denen Klage-Bereiten. - Dem ist aber nicht so, wie der unten kurz angerissene Artikel ganz deutlich zeigt:
August 27, 2010, 5:14 PM EDT
Feinberg Challenged by Attorneys General on BP Fund
By Jim SNYDER:
(Updates with comment from Justice Department spokeswoman in 11th paragraph.)
"Aug. 27 [2010] (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth FEINBERG’s effort to pick among claims on BP Plc’s $20 billion fund for victims of its oil spill has attracted a group of self-described watchdogs: attorneys general from affected GULF Coast states.
“I’m certainly not going to give it my Good Housekeeping seal of approval,” Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, said in an interview.
Feinberg, a Washington lawyer, took over operations of the BP fund on Aug. 23. Backing from the attorneys general may be crucial to winning broad participation in the fund that BP and the OBAMA administration created to MINIMIZE protracted legal FIGHTS, according to Jon MILLS, director of the University of Florida’s Center for Governmental Responsibility in Gainesville.
“If Feinberg’s work is viewed as inadequate by a large group of legal officials, including AGs, then people will seek alternatives,” Mills, a former Democratic speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, said in an interview yesterday. “Then we start to lose the fundamental benefit of this, which is SPEED.”
The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which will draw on the escrow fund to pay people and businesses harmed by the largest U.S. oil spill, received 20,062 claims through yesterday, Amy Weiss, a spokeswoman for Feinberg, said today in an e-mail"...
SOURCE / QUELLE dieses Ausschnitts:
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-27/...eneral-on-bp-fund.html
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