by Spencer Aronfeld | May 8, 2010 | Environmental Claims and Toxic Torts
This last week I spent in Buras, Louisiana. It was perhaps the most rewarding of my legal career.Yet, at the same time probably the most frustrating. Lawyers are fighting lawyers, charities are fighting charities and all the while the Vietnamese, Cambodian and...
by Spencer Aronfeld | May 6, 2010 | Environmental Claims and Toxic Torts
Los Angeles Times reporter Louis Sahagun investigates the way BP is treating the Cambodian and Vietnamese fishermen following BP’s oil spill. Check out the details of the town hall meeting I organized with Shezad Malik today. More details to follow:Gulf’s...
by Spencer Aronfeld | May 4, 2010 | Environmental Claims and Toxic Torts
Authority for Trust Fund: The Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 (33 USC 2701-2761) was implemented after the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska.The law does three things:lays out the protocols for response and cleanupdefines liability related to the spillcreates...
by Spencer Aronfeld | May 3, 2010 | Environmental Claims and Toxic Torts
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by Spencer Aronfeld | May 3, 2010 | Environmental Claims and Toxic Torts
On Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Ginger Berrigan prevented oil giant BP from having local shrimpers and fisherman from signing releases that would protect BP from from liability in the cleanup efforts. Desperate for money, these shrimpers, oyster harvesters are...
by Spencer Aronfeld | May 3, 2010 | Environmental Claims and Toxic Torts
As a oil spill claims lawyer, I was on ground zero when President Obama first toured the region. On the ground, with attorney Shezad Malik as President Obama’s motorcade passes by in Venice, Louisiana. I am representing fisherman, shrimpers and restaurant owners...
