A high-powered, national plaintiff litigation firm told Dunedin commissioners Thursday that he'd have a draft recovery claim against BP ready in about two weeks.
A high-powered, national plaintiff litigation firm told Dunedin commissioners he'd have a draft claim against BP ready for Dunedin in about two weeks. Kevin Dean, a lawyer from South Carolina-based Motley Rice LLC, reassured commissioners who had questions about being past the Jan. 18 deadline to file a claim for recovery costs from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. "It is a little bit of a concern," Dean said. "But I think we'll be OK." He told city officials Feb. 7 that the statute of limitations doesn't technically expire until April 20. Dean said no case law on the technicalities surrounding a 90-day filing period under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 exists, and he suspects judges would rule in the claimants' favor if it is challenged…
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Despite being past deadline to file a claim, a high-powered litigation firm wants Dunedin to join Pinellas County and several surrounding cities in filing claims against oil companies deemed responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.
Dunedin is well past the deadline to file a claim against oil companies deemed responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. But a high-powered, national plaintiff litigation firm is approaching city officials Thursday about filing a claim anyway. Tourists were scared away, local businesses hemorrhaged and fishing livelihoods were ruined along the entire Gulf coast in the aftermath of the oil spill. And the City of Dunedin, a coastal hamlet in Pinellas County, the most popular tourism destination on Florida's west coast, surely took a hit, says Motley Rice LLC. Motley Rice says that despite being past the Jan. 18 statute of limitation, it can help the city, along with Pinellas County and several neighboring cities that have already …
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Lori
4:35 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Good ole Dunedin...Spending ALL that $$$....again. As Steve said what a crock! So right Mark... more ›