Well, sure the spill is having, and will continue to have, nasty ecological effects for many years to come. And BP needs to pay for that. Sounds to me, however, like Dudley is rightly irked by people making false claims. Surely we’re not suggesting he has to pay everybody everything they ask for and not demand a little evidence they’re owed?
I suggest it would be quite enough for him to let BP’s well-paid defense lawyers worry about that WRT each individual claim, which they will, and there’s no need for him to make a public fuss about it or set up this bullshit hotline; that’s just a PR exercise, and one no doubt from the mind of the class clown at PR school.
I’m slightly surprised no fiscal conservatives have joined in to pronounce that a company has no duty to the sea, the sky, nor any other concern than increasing shareholders’ profits.
The ‘true victims’ bit has an extra layer of sanctimony to those who are British. Every little squirt seeking to diminish the NHS or the welfare state piously prefaces whatever drivel they emit by saying of course they want nothing more than to continue charity to those in true need, and cutting back on the undeserving poor will give more resources for that noble purpose.
It took you seven posts, but you have finally managed to articulate what you are actually pissed off about: you don’t want Dudley publicly acknowledging that there may be fraudulent claimants. Instead, they should silently dispense with said scoundrels because to mention them in polite company is just terribly gauche, is that it?
You misspelled “bitching.”
Without defending any fraudsters, if they exist at all outside his own opinion, sometimes it would be best for a billionaire being cheated by gypsies of $50 when buying shoddy clothes-pegs at his mansion door to just pay them off rather than involving the police when he has rather too many bodies buried around the grounds.
Squabbling really doesn’t get one good public relations.
Well, lets suppose for a moment that BP isn’t really the gosh-all-wonderful company we know them to be. Suppose they were represented by morally bankrupt lawyers and PR people. Isn’t something like this one of the first things they come up with, the bleeding obvious? Not even to mention the bonanza of billable hours.
They can go to court and ask for some relief, yes? Gonna have to slow things down a mite, take our time and be sure that all these claims are legit. Won’t that have an effect on the settlement negotiations? How long do you want to wait to get paid, how long can you hold out? We got money and lawyers, what you got?
That’s not to say that I think no bogus claims will be filed, of course they will. Only that they are not likely to be doing this from pure motivations of justice and fairness. most likely, they are doing it for money. Duh.
You don’t have to feel sympathy for BP to recognize the trouble here.
A USA Today editorial (8/21) makes the point that if lawyers whack BP with a bunch of fraudulent claims and get away with it, the next time there’s a case like this the outcome could be far different.
“The public’s concern? After the next disaster, the perpetrators will refuse to settle. The company at fault won’t offer $20 billion. It will fight, as oil giant Exxon did for 19 years after its tanker ran aground off Alaska’s coast. By the time the Supreme Court ruled in 2008, 20% of the claimants had died.”
Hard to see why future victims should suffer in order to gratify greedy plaintiffs and their attorneys who want to cash in on the BP spill.
They had no vetting procedure in place? This didn’t occur to them until just now? Are they offering any facts, anything we can use to get a handle on this? How many bogus claims have been offered, how did they respond? Are there no legal consequences for filing such clams? Is BP helpless in their grasp? Is there no way, none whatever, to separate the wheat from the chaff in a timely and expeditious fashion?
:rolleyes:
We ought to let the claimants regulate themselves and have faith that things will work out for the best. Otherwise you get a lot of big-government red tape, liberals sticking their noses in everything and spending everyone’s money, and before you know it this is a socialist country. And my way is expeditious.
Oh, there are tons of honest judges from all sorts of backgrounds. But, like I said, this is Louisiana.
When I lived there there was a woman running for judge, who I voted for, thinking about time. She promptly approved a drive through liquor store. Which sold its drinks in cups. But it was okay - they had saran wrap lids.
I’m all for everyone who got hurt getting every penny they deserve as quickly as possible. I’m not so okay with assholes who are in for an easy buck slowing down the process.
There is already an administrator who decides which claims are legitimate. I want BP to shut up and pay the claims that the administrator certifies.
Actually, I want Dudley and the rest of the BP leadership to pay the claims out of their personal assets, with a bar on recompense from the corporation, but I’m not going to get that.
Well, they ain’t gonna.
You’re confusing your retarded dreamed up perceptions with reality again.
Here, Drunky, have a dead bird with tar sauce, there’s plenty to go around.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Are you under the impression that no-one makes the argument that companies only have duties towards shareholders ?
If so, you should get out more.
From here:
BP is clearly in denial.
They have the contract for Egypt too?! :eek:
