10-3-13

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said claimants should not be paid for fictitious or wholly non-existent losses. ​ As part of today's decision, the Fifth Circuit also reversed the District Court's denial of BP's motion for a preliminary injunction staying the payment of business economic loss claims under the agreement. The Fifth Circuit has ordered the District Court to "expeditiously craft" an injunction that stays payments to people who did not suffer "actual injury traceable to loss from the Deepwater Horizon accident" until the matter is "fully [...]