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Updated 1:05 p.m. ETThe administrator of a $20 billion Gulf oil spill compensation fund offered a hard sell Monday, promising fishermen and others with lost income claims from the disaster that he ll be more generous with them than any court would be.Kenneth Feinberg noted that claimants are free to instead file a lawsuit, but added, stanley cup You re crazy to do so, though. Because under this program, you will receive, if you re eligible, compensation without having to go to court for years, without the uncertainty of going to court, since I ll be much more generous than any court will be, Feinberg said. And at the same time, you won t need to pay lawyers and costs. Special Section: Disaster in the Gulf Feinberg made the comments in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., but his target audience included people and businesses who have suffered economic harm in the Gulf Coast area. He sounded like a TV pitchman, reminding them they were under no obligation to waive their rights to sue, unless and until they decide to accept a lump sum for all present and future injury.He noted that claimants could get emergency payments for six months without giving up th stanley cup eir right to sue. If you decide after that to litigate, you sti stanley tumblers ll keep the check. I mean, who wouldn t come into this program he asked in an incredulous tone. It is, to my way of thinking, an easy call. Feinberg also administered compensation funds for victims of the 9/ Aqhj 9/11 Skeptic Compares Bush And Hitler
Scalding, black lava crept out of the largest fissure ripped open by Hawaii s Kilauea Volcano, consuming the lush, green landscape around it and lobbing balls of magma known as spatter bombs 500 feet into the air, according to footage and reports from the US Geological Survey.Fissure No. 17 split the Earth near Leilani Estates, near the eastern point of Hawaii s Big Island, and the USGS published footage of the lava running like a river -- and then a lake -- past three structures in the area.While authorities reported an 18th fissure opening Sunday, the HawaiianVolcano Observatory walke nike dunk d that back, saying the latest nike air force crack in the Earth - af1 - near Halekamahina Loop Road -- was actually part of Fissure 17. On Monday morning, Fissure 18 officially opened, according to the USGS.No matter what they number them, for residents, the fissures just mean more reasons to run, as the evacuation zones expanded.Fissure 17 -- the most voluminous, the USGS says -- is several hundred yards long and was causing serious trouble Sunday, with lava fountaining, explosion of spatter bombs hundreds of feet into the air, and several advancing lava flow lobes moving generally northeast from the fissure, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. Based on overflight images late this afternoon, additional lava from fissure 17 was also moving slowly southeast. Volcanic gas emissions remain elevated, the HVO said late Sunday.The observatory added that future outbreaks could arise southwest and northeast o |
