5th Circuit Affirms Denial Of Defunct Surgery Center’s Claim For Economic Damages

(November 30, 2018, 9:40 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 28 found that a federal judge in Louisiana did not abuse his discretion when refusing to review a now-defunct outpatient surgery center’s claim for economic damages under the Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) for economic and property damages sustained as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that followed the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, holding that neither the claims administrator nor the appeals panel erred when denying the claim (Claimant ID 100227611 v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al., No. 18-30396, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 33357)....

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