McCollum Pushes Feinberg to Improve BP Claims Process

A month after losing to Rick Scott in the Republican gubernatorial primary, Attorney General Bill McCollum released a letter late on Monday that he sent to Ken Feinberg, the Beltway attorney handling the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund.

McCollum reviewed a meeting that he held with Feinberg on Wednesday and offered his take on what had occurred -- and the attorney generals attempts to ensure a more prompt and responsive claims process.

Wrote McCollum: Although the discharge of oil has been stopped, the Deepwater Horizon blowout is an ongoing economic and environmental disaster and we must recognize that recovery will take some time. Part of the recovery process will depend on providing a fair and efficient claims process that, at the very least, complies with the requirements of OPA (Oil Pollution Act of 1990) and ensures at least some mitigation of economic loss so that affected Floridians can weather this crisis.

The full letter can be read at the attorney generals website.