ATTORNEY GENERAL WARNS FLORIDIANS AGAINST PAYING FEES FOR OIL SPILL CLAIMS SERVICES

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today warned Floridians
that anyone requesting a fee to process a claim for loss or damage
associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is not an authorized
BP/ESIS adjuster. ESIS is BP’s authorized, third-party claims
administrator. The BP claims process is free of any cost to any individual
or company filing claims.

“Floridians need to be on the lookout for people posing as authorized
adjusters and requesting fees for free claims services,” said Attorney
General McCollum.

As part of the process, claimants are assigned a personal claims number
upon making an initial claim through the BP hotline at 1-800-440-0858. An
authorized ESIS adjuster will then contact the claimant to further verify
and process the claim for payment. The ESIS adjuster will repeat the
claimant’s personal claim number and will not request or require a fee. If
a caller cannot repeat the correct personal claim number or requests a
fee, consumers should immediately contact the Attorney General’s Fraud
Hotline at 1-866-9-NO-SCAM (1-866-966-7226) or file a complaint online at
http://www.myfloridalegal.com.

Attorney General McCollum’s office has been working with BP to streamline
its claims process. As a result of the Attorney General’s effort,
Floridians calling to file claims will be specifically instructed not to
pay any fees to any parties calling about claims services. The Attorney
General also recently launched a website to provide Floridians with
information about the state’s response to the Deepwater Horizon incident
and the oil spill approaching Florida’s coastline. The website,
http://myfloridalegal.com/deepwaterhorizon, provides helpful guidance for
filing claims as well as information that citizens can use to protect
themselves from fraud.

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