Dave, First, thank you for your inciteful editorial comments. We try to watch at least one WLOX news cast every day, as well as attend your website. This morning, Monday 11/01 at 8:30am, your bp commercial featuring Pete Boyd felt very wrong, given bp and GCCF's statistically abberant treatment of Mississippi claims. We hard-working and self-reliant people of our beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast have filed fewer claims than any of our neighbors, yet are being denied at incredibly greater rates. As of yesterday morning, AL, FL, and LA were being denied at an average of 13%. Mississippi's claims were being denied at 40%. These are percentages of claims having been resolved. GCCF publishes stats daily. I believe Pete said something like "...bp helping all kinds of people". I am sure you must be aware that any claims related to casinos seem to be denied categorically. Perhaps they are being reviewed still, but GCCF website information offers conflicting information. "GCCF Program Statistics", "Mississippi Claims Details Report" shows every "casino" related claim to be "claimant denied". The GCCF 800 number tells us that we have not been denied, but, then, why does it indicate so on their website? Further, if we are still being considered, we are finding ourselves totally stone-walled regarding any time frame for resolution. Friday's Sun Herald front-page article reported that State House of Representatives Gaming Committee Chairman Bobby Moak, Mississippi Hotel & Lodging Association executive director Linda Hornsby, and Mississippi Casino Operators Association executive director Beverly Martin are all contacting Kenneth Feinberg on Mississippi's behalf. We fervently hope that WLOX will fight for us all, as well.
If there is any way I can contribute further, please contact me. We try to publish info daily at http://www.casinobpclaims.blogspot.com/.
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