Claims processing continues to progress very slowly. In my last post I said there were 1600 publishers involved. Wrong, there are about 4600! I said defense agreed not to seek reimbursement from those owing less than $10,000. Wrong, that issue not yet resolved or clear. Estimate in June was 6 to 9 months. Six from then out of the question; 9 from then still possible.
Several weeks ago the Administrator's lead management person for this effort, which I believe has to be one of the most complicated claims processes (actually two processes) ever, ceased employment with the the Administrator. He had supervised it since claims processing started last August.
