An unlikely company has filed a claim for compensation regarding the disaster - a New Orleans strip club. The owners of The Mimosa Dancing Girls, located on the edge of New Orleans, claimed that the spill was bad for business as the fishermen who usually frequented the club cannot afford to spend money there.
BP announced yesterday that it had already received 64,000 compensation claims, adding that it already paid $104 million to residents along the US Gulf Coast. Most of the 1500 claims the energy giant handles each day were said to be from those involved in the fishing industry, as a fishing ban prohibits them from working.
But officials at BP's New Orleans claims centre said the bulk of claimants were no longer fishermen. As well as strip joint owners, restaurant waitresses, dock workers, plumbers and electricians also came to the centre, saying their livelihoods were severely hit.
BP set up 33 field offices in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, and a thousand-strong team was set to deal with claimants. The firm said it would not refuse any claim where the right documentation was provided.
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