The East Baton Rouge Metro Council has passed a $4.5 million settlement in the civil suit for the family of Alton Sterling, the man who was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge Police Department officer in 2016.
In a recent report, he said attorney Lionel "Tiger" Sutton III, received $40,000 in fees for referring a claimant to Andry and Lerner before joining the staff of claims administrator Patrick Juneau.
A court-supervised claims administrator has made more than $4.5 billion in settlement offers to more than 55,000 Gulf Coast businesses and residents who claim the spill cost them money.
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BP PLC says MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, its minority partner in the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well, has agreed to pay the British company $1.065 billion to settle all claims between the companies over the accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A major New Orleans hospital and the company that owned it have settled a class action lawsuit in the deaths and injuries of patients who were stranded there during and after Hurricane Katrina.