BP Settlement News Website Launched

April 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Can Big Oil Avoid Its Responsibility to Make the People and Businesses of the Gulf Coast States Whole After the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill? We hope not.

The BP settlement continues to generate controversy as BP tries every trick in the law books to avoid paying BP claims that it owes under the Deepwater Horizon settlement agreement.

I’m working with two experienced class action litigation firms to offer representation to those needing professional help filing BP claims. As part of our effort to make sure every class member with a valid BP claim actually finds out about it, we’ve launched BP Settlement News.

We already had one website at BP Settlement Help, but it wasn’t designed for frequent updates with news about the settlement. Both BP Settlement News and BP Settlement Help provide forms that allow people to obtain free legal evaluations of their potential BP claims.

I believe those who visit BP Settlement News tomorrow will find the articles interesting.

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BP claims | Check out new video and post about BP claims at BPOilNews.com

April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

BP Claims: New video and post at BPOilNews.com regarding BP settlement and your right to file BP claims

BP claims filed by businesses continue to be fought by BP, even though it entered into a settlement of the BP oil spill class action lawsuit. We’ve got a new post about BP claims at BPOilNews.com. If you’ve never filed a BP claim, or if you’ve got BP claims still unpaid, contact us for a Free BP claims review.

The new post contains a video explaining the BP claims process. If you own a business anywhere in Alabama, don’t assume you’re not a class member just because BP didn’t send you a class action notice by first class mail. BP limited the notice it sent out, and has engaged in other conduct to try to hold down the number of BP claims.

Click here to get a BP claims free review

This post regarding BP claims may be considered attorney advertising.

No representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers. The hiring of a law firm is a serious decision that should not be based on advertising alone.

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BP settlement developments | BP continues to fight BP claims

March 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment

BP Settlement Court Filings Seek to Evade Obligations BP Assumed in BP’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Settlement

BP continues to air television commercials bragging on their commitment to the Gulf coast, while at the same time, trying to renege on the promisees it agreed to in writing just this past fall.

BP signed a settlement agreement which included all businesses in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and much of Florida, no matter how far those businesses were located from the Gulf Coast. BP was so anxious to avoid a just trial that it said businesses could collect even if they weren’t involved in tourism or the seafood industry. The businesses didn’t even have to prove that they lost money due to the BP oil spill.

BP recognizes that its oil spill devastated the economies of the Gulf Coast states, and injured businesses that could never prove their losses were caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Last fall, BP was willing to sign a class action settlement agreement which said it would pay BP claims to businesses all over the state based on simple revenue formulas.

Basically, if you lost revenues during the oil spill in 2010, and regained your revenues in 2010, you might be covered by the BP settlement. (There are a few technicalities I’m not covering in this short post, but the test allowed many North Alabama businesses to qualify for BP claims from the BP settlement without having to prove the oil spill caused their losses).

But now that BP has avoided a jury trial of the class action, it is filing repeated court motions and lawsuits trying to avoid its responsibility for paying BP claims. I’ve written a more detailed post at BPOilNews.com saying BP is reprehensible.

If you operate a business in Alabama, I recommend you read the opinion article about the BP Settlement.

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BP settlement approval allows businesses in Southeast to file BP Claims

March 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment

BP claims may be filed by many more businesses than previously thought

BP claims administered by Kenneth Feinberg through the Gulf Coast Claims Facility were a disappointment to both businesses and individuals located near the Gulf Coast. Although Feinberg jetted all over the Gulf Coast area, most people who filed BP claims found that Feinberg did not deliver on his promise to pay BP claims quickly and fairly.

Fortunately, Feinberg has been replaced by a BP settlement process approved in a BP class action by Judge Carl Barbier in December. To the surprise of many businesses, many more businesses are eligible to file BP claims than many had expected.

BP claims news can be found at BP Oil News and BP Claims Report.

The BP Settlement creates zones in which any business can file a BP claim if the business had a significant decline in general revenues during the time of the BP oil spill in 2010. Because it is widely understood that the oil spill impacted businesses far from the Gulf Coast, the BP settlement sets up zones within which any business of any type is eligible to file a claim. Those zones include the entire states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the West Coast of Florida all the way south to Key West.

Thus a North Alabama construction company could file a BP claim if it suffered a significant decrease in gross revenues in 2010 and the saw a rebound of revenues in 2011. The claims process is complicated, and the attorneys who sponsor the YouTube channel and websites listed in this article are working with accountants to help take the burden of the BP claims process off the shoulders of business men and women. This legal assistance is available free of charge, with a fee being paid only if the business collects on its BP claim.

There is also a BPSettlementHelp YouTube channel and a BP settlement Help website that allows people to contact lawyers for a free legal review of their potential BP claims.

All businesses of any type which are located in one of the settlement zones may be able to qualify to file BP claims, and receive payment from the BP settlement. Businesses don’t have to prove that they lost revenues due to the BP oil spill; they simply need to have financial records proving a significant decrease in revenues during 2010, and certain other criteria regarding their revenues in 2011.

Although BP claims for contractors and certain other businesses have been delayed by BP’s efforts to change the process, the Court recently entered an order which should speed up the payment of claims.

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