Realtors Press Feinberg for BP Fund to Compensate Their Losses

Realtors are pressing Kenneth Feinberg, who runs the $20 billion claims fund for victims of the BP Plc oil spill, to reimburse them for their lost business in states along the Gulf of Mexico.

Feinberg, who has called real-estate agents a “major political force,” met yesterday in Washington with the National Association of Realtors, a trade group, and with industry representatives from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to discuss the pleas for aid, said Malcolm Young, president of the Louisiana Realtors association.