Commercial Fishing Company's Fraud Bars Deepwater Horizon Fund Claims

摘要

A commercial fishing company must repay amounts received from the Deepwater Horizon settlement fund and is barred from future payouts, a federal appeals court held April 8 (Lake Eugenie Land & Dev., Inc. v. BP Exploration & Prod., Inc., 2016 BL 111390, 5th Cir., No. 15-30574, 4/8/16). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a finding that the company submitted fraudulent claims to the fund.