Dismissal Of 800 Oil Spill Cleanup Workers’ Claims Upheld By 5th Circuit

Mealey's (May 1, 2019, 1:33 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 29 affirmed the dismissal with prejudice of 800 people who worked for a company that performed cleanup services during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010, but vacated the dismissal of 17 people who allegedly sustained injuries as a result of exposure to dispersants, finding that 800 people failed to timely file independent complaints pursuant to a court-ordered deadline (In re: Deepwater Horizon, No. 18-30008, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 12904)....