General motors vehicle. This badly designed combination of metal and plastic has ruined so many lives now. The process of putting a dollar value on a human life begins. Today is the first day victims of families can submit applications for payment. Joining me now kenneth feinberg, running the gm Victims Compensation fund. Today is your first day accepting claims. Plaintiffs attorneys expect several claims to be made today. How many claims will you get . You never know, sheer speculation as to how many lawyers and claimants have the time today, the first day that the claim forms are available to fill them out and send them into me. What we do know based on history, 9 11, bp, we get a spike of claims in the first month of the program, and then another spike probably in december. The last month of the program. So well have to wait and see what comes in the door. Gerri certainly, gm itself set aside 400 million for the purpose of compensating victims, thats what they said publicly. What do
This is one of the faulty General Motors vehicle. This badly designed combination of metal and plastic has ruined so many lives now. The process of putting a dollar value on a human life begins. Today is the first day victims of families can submit applications for payment. Joining me now kenneth feinberg, running the gm Victims Compensation fund. Today is your first day accepting claims. Plaintiffs attorneys expect several claims to be made today. How many claims will you get . You never know, sheer speculation as to how many lawyers and claimants have the time today, the first day that the claim forms are available to fill them out and send them into me. What we do know based on history, 9 11, bp, we get a spike of claims in the first month of the program, and then another spike probably in december. The last month of the program. So well have to wait and see what comes in the door. Gerri certainly, gm itself set aside 400 million for the purpose of compensating victims, thats what t
General motors vehicle. This badly designed combination of metal and plastic has ruined so many lives now. The process of putting a dollar value on a human life begins. Today is the first day victims of families can submit applications for payment. Joining me now kenneth feinberg, running the gm Victims Compensation fund. Today is your first day accepting claims. Plaintiffs attorneys expect several claims to be made today. How many claims will you get . You never know, sheer speculation as to how many lawyers and claimants have the time today, the first day that the claim forms are available to fill them out and send them into me. What we do know based on history, 9 11, bp, we get a spike of claims in the first month of the program, and then another spike probably in december. The last month of the program. So well have to wait and see what comes in the door. Gerri certainly, gm itself set aside 400 million for the purpose of compensating victims, thats what they said publicly. What do
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