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Lack of translators makes oil spill claims process arduous for Southeast Asian immigrants
- 8/23/2010
- al.com
- Link: http://blog.al.com
Hundreds of non-English-speaking seafood industry workers endured an arduous claims process in south Mobile County — an area heavily populated by immigrants from Southeast Asia — because of what one volunteer group identified as a lack of translators.
Oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg, who takes the reins from BP today, promised that he would smooth out the process for non-English-speakers in Bayou La Batre.
Share Feinberg said he would have interpreters at claims centers and provide forms in several different languages.
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