Gulf oil spill cleanup workers' health claims drawing scrutiny from Kenneth Feinberg | NOLA.com

As a massive federal study aimed at gauging the human health effects of exposure to oil and chemicals during the cleanup of last year's Gulf oil spill gets under way, the man in charge of compensating the spill's victims reports that only 200 people have put in claims saying they were injured or sickened by the disaster. Kenneth Feinberg, who was appointed by BP and President Barack Obama to administer a spill-damage claims fund, has paid more than $5 billion to more than 200,000 victims, and he has received about 1 million claims in all. But only about 0.02 percent of them are health-related -- including those from the workers injured or killed on the rig itself. He is skeptical of some of the other claims...

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