With a midnight Monday deadline approaching to file claims under a 2012 settlement over the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the claims administrator said he expected a last-minute rush of filers.
"There's always a rush, for myriad reasons," Patrick Juneau said in a telephone interview last week. Juneau said more than 328,000 claims had been filed as of the middle of last week. More than 20,000 of those were filed last month.
Juneau said there has been an uptick in the number of filings as the deadline approaches. He announced last week that claims centers in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas would be open until midnight Monday to handle claims.
As of mid-April, more than $5 billion in claims had been paid out, according to Juneau's office.
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