Does BP stand for "make it up as you go along"?

There is an interesting little story that is the current "bizz" on Yahoo news.  "BP says oil spill compensation payout rate soars".  The key "bad word" is soars...the payout rate soars...NOT the amount of of the payout but the rate of paying....Being in advertising and marketing long enough to smell a PR release masked as news when I see one, I looked for the nut of the matter.  Here it is:

"....had paid out 19,000 claims totaling over $240 million...."

OMG 19,000 claims...240 million smackers....then we do the math. This is, by the way since they started paying claims but let's be nice and say over 3 months. (they are now paying 3.5 million a day in claims so 100 million a month after a very slow start is about right....back to the match:

240,000,000/19,000 = ???  Why that is $1,263 and change for the average claim.  The average person or business who walks up to the BP payout window gets $1,263...then signs a release saying they 1. won't ask for more and 2. won't sue the company.   Santa Claus is in the Gulf!!!!