5th Circuit Upholds Denial Of Royal Caribbean’s Oil Spill Settlement Claims

(October 24, 2017, 8:27 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana’s refusal to review the denial of 10 claims for economic losses submitted by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) under the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement was upheld by a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 17, finding that the cruise line was not a member of the settlement class because its vessels were not home ported in the Gulf of Mexico from April 20, 2010, through April 16, 2012 (Claimant ID 100218776 v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., No. 16-30849, 5th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 20349)....

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