Designing the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in the Shadow of the Law: A Template From the Superfund § 301 (e) Report

摘要

About two months after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP and the Obama White House announced a novel agreement under which BP created a new $20 billion oil-spill fund to pay individuals and businesses suffering losses arising out of the disaster.1 Kenneth R. Feinberg moved from his post as "pay czar" for financial institutions receiving federal assistance in order to undertake administration of this Gulf Coast Claims Facility (the Facility). Feinberg is the same Washington-based lawyer who ran the victims' compensation fund after Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.