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.
