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Plaintiffs’ attorneys respond to NY Times columnist’s biting critique of BP...
NEW ORLEANS – Two attorneys on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee have responded to New York Times’ columnist Joe Nocera’s op-ed published on July 8, alleging that the claims process awarding damages...
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BP’s request to put emergency stop on claim process during fraud...
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Federal Judge Carl Barbier has ruled against a temporary stop to claims payments stemming from the 2010 Gulf oil spill while an investigation is underway into potential wrongdoing in...
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BP claims new findings of ‘systemic fraud’ in settlement program, asks for...
NEW ORLEANS – On Monday BP filed documents stating they have proof of “systemic fraud” within the settlement program that provides payments to those harmed by the 2010 oil spill. In their request to...
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BP’s attempt to withhold third quarter funding from claims administrator shot...
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has refused a request by BP to have the $130 million third quarter budget of oil spill claims administrator Patrick Juneau’s office thrown out. Juneau’s...
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BP claims administrator given two weeks to respond to latest fraud allegations
NEW ORLEANS – Only one week after BP filed a request to temporarily stop payments for claims under a settlement agreement stemming from the 2010 Gulf oil spill until allegations of fraud were...
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Appeals court rules for BP – allows claims process to be revisited
NEW ORLEANS – Despite U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier saying BP had no right to revisit a settlement reached with the plaintiffs’ steering committee last year over the 2010 BP oil spill, an appeals...
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Claims administrator ordered to halt BP oil spill claims payments
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) — U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has ordered claims administrator Patrick Juneau to immediately stop business-related loss payments connected to the 2010 BP oil spill....
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Attorney requests recusal of investigator who implicated him in alleged BP...
NEW ORLEANS – A local attorney who was implicated in an attempt to hide a referral fee provided to a BP claims attorney while a $7.9 million claim was being handled has asked the investigator who...
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Questions of ethics arise as BP class action claims process gets second look
NEW ORLEANS – As the legal process for determining BP’s depth of liability for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill continues, claims against the company are racking up for personal injury,...
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Freeh investigation parallels BP settlement dispute
NEW ORLEANS – Loyola University New Orleans College of Law professor Blaine LeCesne describes the court-ordered investigation into allegations of fraud within the BP oil spill settlement program as...
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BP to return to appeals court following Barbier ruling upholding settlement...
NEW ORLEANS – Only days after U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier upheld a controversial settlement process concerning business damage claims from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP has again filed...
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BP’s latest attempt to revisit settlement agreement shot down by appeals court
NEW ORLEANS – BP has suffered another blow in its bid to restructure a settlement agreement after an appeals court decided that the district court had no duty to revisit the agreement between the oil...
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BP ad in Wall Street Journal takes aim at law firms who have received oil...
NEW ORLEANS – In the wake of continued revelations of possible corruption in the settlement program form the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP has published a new advertisement in the Wall Street...
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Juneau defends negative statements made about BP’s CEO
NEW ORLEANS – Deepwater Horizon Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau said he was not threatening to sue the chief executive of BP PLC when he told a Lafayette newspaper recently that the oil executive...
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Plaintiffs’ attorneys strategize behind closed doors on BP claims process
NEW ORLEANS – The recent implementation of a new accounting system in the BP Deepwater Horizon settlement has slowed claims payments to a crawl, creating lots of uncertainty about who will be paid in...
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BP files motion to remove Patrick Juneau as claims administrator
NEW ORLEANS – Oil giant BP PLC has filed a motion to have Patrick Juneau removed as claims administrator in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, arguing that he is biased and has not been...
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BP didn’t know what Juneau knew
In the birthplace of Huey Long and Edwin Edwards, you have to expect corruption on a grand scale. Even in Louisiana, however, the shenanigans associated with the BP oil spill settlement smell like a...
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Judge asks accused to defend actions in alleged BP ‘money laundering’ scheme
NEW ORLEANS – Four attorneys accused of corruption in the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement were called before a federal judge this week to explain why they shouldn’t be sanctioned or...
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Judge rules BP will not get restitution for claims paid under flawed...
NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge has denied BP’s request to reclaim hundreds of millions of dollars in claims payments the company says would not have been paid to Deepwater Horizon oil spill claimants...
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BP settlements slow to a trickle; Critics say system ‘shockingly inefficient’
NEW ORLEANS – The numbers are in and the number of claimants paid under the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement totals 883 for the entire month of September – leaving more than 131,000 people still...
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