Only about a third resulted in discretionary payments, totaling less than 4% of what claimants had sought.
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Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2026
In 2000, when a small tanker carrying no liability insurance and no class certificate sank off Abu Dhabi, the Funds paid claimants in the United Arab Emirates anyway.
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