U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier on May 2, 2012, granted preliminary approval to two class action settlement agreements between BP and plaintiffs’ attorneys related to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The settlements would help to resolve more than 100,000 claims from businesses and individuals who say they were harmed by the massive oil spill, which erupted in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.
The class settlement agreements between BP and the PSC for economic/property loss and personal injury claims were submitted to the court for preliminary approval on April 25. It is not too late to submit claims that fall in or out of the class settlement. We expect the class settlement claims center to open approximately May 25 and claims can be made under the settlement through at least April 22, 2014.
The Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) spearheading the litigation surrounding the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill today announced that a settlement in principle has been reached with BP that will fully compensate hundreds of thousands of victims of the tragedy.
Rhon Jones, who was born in Troy and graduated from Charles Henderson High School, is one of 15 attorneys who were chosen for the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in the multi-district litigation related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion an oil spill.
Troy Mayor Jimmy Lunsford said the Beasley Allen Law Firm in Montgomery approached the city and asked if they could enter a claim on behalf of the City of Troy. The firm suggested to Troy, and many other municipalities, that communities have lost revenue from people traveling to and from the Gulf Coast.
A story published today by CNN reports oil giant BP is accusing Halliburton, a contractor on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, of having "intentionally destroyed evidence" related to the explosion aboard the rig.
While television ads and other media portray a Gulf that has bounced back from last year’s devastating oil spill thanks to BP’s efforts to “make things right,” thousands of business owners whose livelihoods are tied directly to the Gulf of Mexico continue to struggle with devastating losses. There’s the spin and there’s the reality, and the disconnect between the two continues to anger and frustrate Gulf residents.
After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April 2010, it soon became clear that the oil gushing out of the blown-out well could amount to one of the worst environmental disasters the country had ever seen. The sheer volume and scope of BP’s oil spill almost guaranteed that it would continue to harm the Gulf Coast for a long time to come. We’ve heard about the ecological destruction, the illness, the out-of-work fishermen and charter boat operators, the shuttered seafood distributors and restaurants, the struggling tourism industry, and greatly diminished revenues. Now, tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents will be harmed yet again in the form of major home value losses.
Beasley Allen attorneys are representing at least 200 clients who claim they fell ill after being exposed to oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill and the chemical dispersants cleanup crews dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to break down the sludgy crude. Of these plaintiffs, three spoke recently with the Montgomery Advertiser about the hardships they continue to face more than a year after the oil disaster first erupted.
Montgomery Advertiser reporter Mary Sell spoke with three of the hundreds of victims suffering physically, mentally and emotionally following their work in helping to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer.
