Nonprofit’s Oil Spill Claim Amount Upheld By Federal Appeals Court

(April 10, 2019, 8:37 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 8 affirmed a nonprofit land trust’s award of nearly $1 million from the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Class Action Settlement Agreement, ruling that a Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) appeals panel did not err when finding that the nonprofit did not misclassify any negative revenue or bad expense reporting (BP Exploration & Production Inc. v. Claimant ID 100201953, No. 18-30853, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10229)....

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