Local business owners affected by the 2010 Gulf oil spill are eligible to seek recovery under the BP Oil claims process that extends help to more of the Big Bend.Under the Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP), numerous businesses in the Big Bend might now qualify for compensation, even if they were not directly affected by the April 2010 incident, said Scott Carruthers of Carruthers Law Group PLC.

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