Magistrate Judge Transfers Dispersant Exposure Injury Suit To Mississippi

(December 15, 2017, 2:58 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal magistrate judge in Louisiana on Dec. 6 transferred to Mississippi federal court a lawsuit filed by man who claims that he developed reactive airways dysfunction syndrome as a result of his exposure to dispersants used to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that followed the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, finding that moving the suit would be more convenient for his health care providers (Kevin Harriel v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al., No. 17-7024, E.D. La., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 200604)....