"BP claims administrator Ken Feinberg has just announced that 2,500 casino claims will be processed beginning next week."
Here is my letter of today responding to the Sun Herald:
Here we are, 2 1/2 weeks later. There has been no apparent processing of casino claims, or very few others for that matter. We are keeping our ear to the ground from Biloxi to Bay St. Louis, and no casino claims have been paid that we know of. When we call the gccf 800#, no one knows of any casino claims processing. gccf has loosely tossed around the word "processing" since last October. The word has absolutely no relation to "Paid". When we ask about "Paid", and point out that at the current rate of payment, it will take four years to wade through all the Mississippi claims, nobody knows anything. The various gccf representatives I have talked to can tell me only that we might get paid sometime up to four years from now.
You would think that any business or law firm would have very definite plans and time-lines for taking care of business. These people can't really be this incompetent, can they? Surely they do have definite time-lines here. For some reason, they prefer to hide behind smokescreens and total lack of transparency. Hidden agendas?
These numbers are from the gccf website today. In Mississippi, there have been 19,050 total Interim and Full Review claims filed. In the thirty-two days since the "Final Rules" were published, only 434 have been paid. That's 2.3% or 13.6/day. Any talk of pay percentages including "Quick Pays" are meaningless. Any talk of "processing" is smokescreen.
For months now, Mr.Feinberg has said just whatever pops into his head to keep the public quiet. None of it has turned out to be accurate, and no calls him on it.
The gccf promised in November to pay all Interim and Final Claims within 90 days of being filed. We personally are past 90 days with still no concrete time-line being offered. All we want is, for once, the truth.
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