Letting BP decide what are 'legitimate' claims is like...

[trof]

letting a person convicted of DUI decide what his fine will be.
Like letting a convicted murderer decide what his sentence will be.

Screw. That.
Period.

And something I heard at a city meeting about filing claims this morning.
"My husband was fired from his job because of the oil spill. He applied for unemployment (in Alabama) and was turned down. If you're 'fired', you can't collect unemployment. He was fired for 'non-production'. He works as a salesman for a vendor who rents bikes and motor scooters. His 'non-production' was because there aren't any tourists down here renting the vehicles."

She was advised to have her husband go back to his former employer and ask if he could be termed 'laid off' instead of fired.

I think that if employers lay off workers then their unemployment insurance premiums go up.
Is that right, attorneys?
Cheaper to fire them?

Note: The Alabama official in charge of unemployment compensation will bill BP for all oil related claims.
BP is 'supposed' to pay the difference between unemployment compensation payments and actual wages to workers.

Yeah, right.
And so it goes.
:-(

[PDJane]

1. Yes.

And there is proof that they are trying to destroy evidence of their culpability in the gulf. As it is, the brown pelican will be back on the endangered species list, and soon.