by brettb on July 29, 2010
As reported by Bloomberg News, attorneys for injury victims from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and attorneys for BP are fighting over the location of a multidistrict court that would hear BP spill related claims.
Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010 causing 11 deaths and numerous injuries
There are currently hundreds of lawsuits (personal injury, financial injury, economic injury, wrongful death, and property damage) pending against BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the Gulf.
Arguments will be heard in Boise, Idaho, today by a federal panel regarding workplace injury and wrongful death claims made by the families of injury victims from the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.
Some attorneys for the injury victims of the BP spill want the MDL to be located in New Orleans with US District Judge Shira Scheindlin, from New York, who has a background in this type of litigation.
Other attorneys would like a judge without a regular caseload to head the MBL.
by brettb on July 27, 2010
On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon exploded causing one of the worst workplace injury, environmental and economic disasters the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. has ever seen.
Gulf residents responds to the BP spill - Source: image and video from the Washington Post
In the aftermath of the spill as literally hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil poured into the Gulf not only did an entire region suffer injury and harm but a centuries old way of life was decimated.
In an excelled video produced by the Washington Post those injury victims are given a face and their story is clearly depicted.
If you care about what is happening in the Gulf, if you realize that what is taking place there is not simply impacting Gulf coast residents but all Americans, then I encourage you to watch this video and to do what you can when you can to help these people, to hold BP accountable, and to eventually bring back the Gulf.
Thank you.
Please click here to watch the video from the Washington Post.
