Nonprofit’s $1.5M Oil Spill Settlement Award Upheld By 5th Circuit

Mealey's (January 10, 2019, 12:11 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana did not err when refusing BP Exploration & Production Inc.’s request to conduct a discretionary review of a Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) claims administrator’s decision to award nearly $1.5 million to a nonprofit that operates group homes for teenagers for damages following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 9, holding that the claimant provided sufficient information to support the award (BP Exploration & Production Inc. v. Claimant ID 100333854, No. 18-30653, 5th Cir.)....

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