Word is that Louis Freeh has brokered a peace treaty between BP and Pat Juneau/Judge Carl Barbier. Not sure what this means for the settlement as a whole, probably not a damn thing in respect to claims actually being paid instead of being logjammed by Freeh and the other court vendors. 495 is here to stay, so between that and Freeh don't expect to see much change in actual claims being paid.
What the peace treaty most likely means is that BP got exactly what they wanted and agreed to stop exposing all the self-dealing Juneau and the PSC have orchestrated....the question is what exactly did BP get.
BP drops their attempt to remove Juneau, Jessica Batt and her husband (PricewaterhouseCoopers employee) conveniently land jobs in merry old England shipping out the main witness that could be deposed to find out what deal McNamee made with Juneau, the McGladrey whistleblower goes MIA (I hope the person is physically ok), Freeh continues to fucksnu as many claims as he can while billing millions a month along with the other court vendors.....everyone is in great shape except the people who were actually affected by the oil spill.
The burning question....did Barbier concede anything to BP in order to get them to play nice. I'm sure we'll find out when he decides how much BP will pay in fines. If he low balls it, you'll know why.
Meanwhile....In-Hale checks in with the latest casualty report:
IN-HALE
Also, I'm curious about this comment Kevin left last night. Usually, when he leaves comments like this it turns out to have legs. I'm having a hard time believing a PSC firm could file a claim for losses incurred by their own firm...and if they did was that claim expedited?
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What the peace treaty most likely means is that BP got exactly what they wanted and agreed to stop exposing all the self-dealing Juneau and the PSC have orchestrated....the question is what exactly did BP get.
BP drops their attempt to remove Juneau, Jessica Batt and her husband (PricewaterhouseCoopers employee) conveniently land jobs in merry old England shipping out the main witness that could be deposed to find out what deal McNamee made with Juneau, the McGladrey whistleblower goes MIA (I hope the person is physically ok), Freeh continues to fucksnu as many claims as he can while billing millions a month along with the other court vendors.....everyone is in great shape except the people who were actually affected by the oil spill.
The burning question....did Barbier concede anything to BP in order to get them to play nice. I'm sure we'll find out when he decides how much BP will pay in fines. If he low balls it, you'll know why.
Meanwhile....In-Hale checks in with the latest casualty report:
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Why isn’t BP bellyaching about Admin expense?
Taken from the Discretionary Review Notice. Unlike the appeals these are not numbered page 2 of 17.
Currently we have 27,340 offers made to the Coastal Property owners with 20,745 Unique Claimants required to sign a release.
Here’s the game once you sign the release you have 6 months to file all other claims. The delays and changing requirements for rental properties have ran out the clock for most of these claimants all by design. These claimants will never see a penny for the lost rental income caused by the spill.
This is the first DC ruling; now watch the Other Denials numbers grow as these claimants learn about deadlines.
Patrick the PSC and the Court Vendors saved every dollar these guys charged BP to administrate the settlement plus billions more.
“The Program denied this claim twice. The Appeal Panel reversed, finding that a claimant may file multiple Coastal Real Property claims for the same property. Here, claimant filed a Coastal Real Property claim with the CSSP in August 2013, was compensated and signed a CSSP Release. The CSSP Release was executed as required by the Settlement Agreement (see Section 4.4.1.0 and Exhibit 26). Once that was done, no further Coastal Real Property claims as to that parcel of real property can be processed. The CSSP Release effects a release of all of the claimant's potential claims save and except for the limited right to assert "additional claims" within six (6) months as provided in Section 4.4.8 of the Settlement Agreement. The Court finds that the reference to "additional claims" in Section 4.4.8 does not include claims of the same claim type relative to the same parcel of land. Thus, a second Coastal Real Property Claim may not be processed and paid on this property. This is how the Claims Administrator has consistently interpreted and applied the Settlement Agreement and the Court agrees with that interpretation.”
Also, I'm curious about this comment Kevin left last night. Usually, when he leaves comments like this it turns out to have legs. I'm having a hard time believing a PSC firm could file a claim for losses incurred by their own firm...and if they did was that claim expedited?
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There are class counsel whose private law practices are located within settlement zones where other law practices were found by the DHECC to be members of the Economic and Property Damages Settlement Class (pre-495).
I haven't scoured the massive settlement document, but after a reasonable search I haven't been able to find any language that says the class counsel and their law practices are excluded from the settlement. Would someone please point me to the page(s) in the settlement document?
If there is no such exclusion, can someone be class counsel and their firm be a class member in this settlement? Have any class counsel or their firm(s) received any BEL or IEL awards from the DHECC?
