It says businesses can be unbearably paid damage claims without proving a directly to the spill.

该公司表示，公司在没有拿到申请者与泄漏事件直接相关的证明前不会支付索赔。

Oil giant BP has started paying medical claims to victims of the gulf of Mexico oil spill.

石油巨头英国石油公司开始向墨西哥湾石油泄漏事件的受害者支付医疗赔偿。

All this makes local authorities particularly badly placed to deal with this new wave of equal pay claims.

所有这些都使得地方政府在处理新一波同工同酬要求方面处于特别不利的地位。

They signed a petition in support of the pay claim.

【support】他们签署了一份请愿书支持加薪的请求。

But you paid the claim anyway.

但不管怎样，你们还是支付了赔偿金。

We have to get an adjuster out here and it'll take days—maybe weeks—for our claim to be paid.

我们必须在这里找一个理算员， 我们的索赔需要几天——也许几周——才能得到支付。

Slidell was to offer to pay these claims if Mexico would accept the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico.

如果墨西哥接受用格兰德河作为德克萨斯州和墨西哥的边界，斯莱德尔将提出支付索赔。

We have to get an adjuster out here and it'll take days – maybe weeks – for our claim to be paid.

我们必须在这里找一个理算员， 这将需要几天——也许几周——才能支付我们的索赔。

And it really comes down to, will they still have the resources to continue to pay those claims farther down the road?

归根结底，他们是否仍有资源继续支付这些索赔？

For Lebanese firms there is an added wrinkle: whether they can get the cash to pay claims, many of which must be paid in dollars.

对黎巴嫩的公司而言，还有一个问题：不管他们有没有现金支付索赔，其中很多都必须以美元来支付。

And if you do that, then I'll destroy the tape. And then the insurance company will pay the claim. Nobody gets hurt. Does that sound good?

如果你这样做，我就毁了磁带。然后保险公司会赔偿，没人受到伤害。你说怎么样？

In return for the one-off lump sum, the women, who mostly worked in care and education, were required to sign paperwork giving up their right to make further equal pay claims.

作为一次性支付的补偿金，这些主要在护理和教育行业工作的女性被要求签署文件，放弃进一步提出同工同酬要求的权利。