Oil spill claims: Harvesters and processors of shrimp, crab to get double the money
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Dan Murtaugh, Press-Register11/30/2011 9:30 AM
MOBILE, Alabama – Shrimp and crab harvesters and processors will get double the money from the oil spill claimsoperation under new rules released today.
The new Gulf Coast Claims Facilityrules give any commercial crab or shrimp harvester or processor either four times the amount they can document having lost in 2010 due to the spill, or their total documented losses to date, whichever is larger.
Previously, they could receive twice their 2010 losses like nearly everyone else.
The new rules also make it tougher for businesses and individuals in Texas and the Florida panhandle to get money from the claims operation.
Losses in those areas “are no longer presumed to be the result of the oil spill,” a statement from the claims operation reads.
Read the entire statement regarding the rules change here.