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BP fund lawyer to refuse 100,000 Gulf spill disaster claims
Vast majority of 130,000 unsettled claims do not have adequate documentation, says Ken Feinberg

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
The Guardian

Upwards of 100,000 claims arising from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may never be paid, the beleaguered administrator of the oil company's compensation fund has acknowledged.

A defensive Ken Feinberg, under fire from the Obama administration, Gulf leaders and local business for the slow pace of payouts for losses due to the BP spill, said the vast majority of the 130,000 unsettled claims did not have adequate documentation.