By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS – Each day, a team of 70 lawyers gathers in a New Orleans office suite to pore over a mountain of documents, study depositions and formulate argument. The attorneys, representing condominium owners, oyster fishermen, hoteliers, beach towns and others who claim to have been hurt by last year's BP oil spill in the [...]
By HARRY R. WEBER - Associated Press The administrator of the $20 billion fund set up by BP to compensate individuals and businesses hurt by last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill said Thursday new rules are being formulated to make payouts more generous for hard-hit shrimpers. Washington attorney Kenneth Feinberg told a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing he [...]
By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune People who participated in BP's Vessels of Opportunity program can now pursue claims for damage to their boats and possibly other grievances, even if they settled claims for economic losses from the oil spill with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, according to a letter from BP. But, BP, leaseholder of the ill-fated Macondo well, also [...]
Kiln man sues state over his beach-front property If successful, a second lawsuit filed recently could prevent the state from leasing portions of valuable beach-front lands to the City of Bay St. Louis in connection with a $17 million, tax-funded municipal marina and waterfront improvements project. The latest suit, entered on behalf of Scott M. Favre Public Adjuster LLC, of [...]
Blog - BPs Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, 19 August 2011 19:11 This morning I set out on a long flight to investigate reports of oil sightings near BP’s Macondo well, the site where the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank into the Gulf killing 11 workers and spewing at least 4.9 million barrels of oil. Whenever [...]
2011 August 19 Friday Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana and Mississippi Today we flew about 500 miles over the Gulf to check out yet more reports of oil. We didn't even get to some of the places reported, because in just a few hours we had already found plenty in at least four distinct locations -- all within 75 miles of [...]
