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SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Two San Francisco-based law firms today announced an agreement with the owners of the Cosco Busan to release about $700,000 to crab fishermen whose livelihoods have been damaged by the Nov. 7 oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
The relief agreement is preliminary, and will disburse $5,000 to $10,000 in insurance funds to each of the approximately 70 crab fishermen in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay represented by Hanson Bridgett and McGuinn, Hillsman and Palefsky, according to attorney Michael Duncheon.
Further claims are still being negotiated, Duncheon said.
128 days ago: Governors seek federal disaster funds for crabbers
272 days ago: Payments help crab fisherman avoid a 'bleak' holiday
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4:36 AM MST on Sat., May. 3, 2008 re: "Governors seek federal disaster funds for crabbers"
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This is also a coverup. They cannot get enough H2 B part time visa's workers. What the governors should add is, if they give the money that they hire Americans. They do not want to hire Americans because they would have to pay unemployment insurance,off season This is a terrible mistake by the States
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