Objector Challenges Incentive Award In Royalty Payment Class Settlement

Mealey's (July 8, 2022, 1:25 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A $232,440 incentive payment awarded to the class representative after a lawsuit over oil and gas royalty payments was settled was in error as it compensated the representative for hours that duplicated class counsel’s hours and some of those hours did not benefit the class, an objector who appealed the settlement argues in his appellant brief filed on July 2 in the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....