5th Circuit Affirms Judge’s Decision To Not Review Oil Spill Claims Award

(December 17, 2018, 12:05 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 13 upheld a federal judge in Louisiana’s decision to not review a Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) appeals panel’s ruling that a dirt work services business was entitled to only $57,394 in compensation for business losses stemming from the oil spill that followed the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, holding that question of whether the claims administrator properly applied the terms of the settlement program was not before the court (Claimant ID 100196090 v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al., No. 18-30137, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 35106)....

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