BP reaches $7.8-bn deal with victims of oil spill

BP Plc said it had reached a $7.8-billion settlement with businesses and individuals over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, removing one of three major litigation fronts facing the company over the biggest offshore spill in US history.

Brent Coon, a Houston-based lawyer representing spill victims both in federal and state courts, said in a Feb. 27 interview that he worried the $14 billion remaining in BP’s trust fund wouldn’t provide enough compensation for those harmed in the disaster.

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Beaumont's Brent Coon Awarded Seat on Environmental Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors

Brent Coon & Associates is proud to announce that the firm's founder, Brent Coon, has been awarded a seat on the Environmental Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors. The Board of Governors, which is comprised of several of the country's most esteemed environmental plaintiff's lawyers, plays a key role in determining the association's agenda for the upcoming year.

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BCA is now at the epicenter of the oil spill litigation. In addition to representing hundreds of rig workers, shrimpers, fishermen and business/condo owners across the Gulf Coast, Brent Coon is serving on an ad hoc committee of attorneys advising & assisting Ken Feinberg on the administration of the $20B Claims Fund. Brent Coon & Associates was the lead counsel in the BP Texas City Explosion of March 23, 2005, representing hundreds of affected workers. BCA released over 7 million documents to the media concerning refinery safety and played a pivotal role in establishing the occurrences of multiple, major safety violations.
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BCA has developed its very own Case Management Software entitled CLS. As a part of our JV expansion, we are allowing our JV partners access to CLS so that you may view and track all of your cases from home or the office. This unique, outside version of CLS – “CLS Lite”, if you will – gives you full access and functionality to all of your cases and your cases alone. You will be able to track progress on your cases, update the status of your cases, find detailed reports and much more!
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