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I?ve spoken with a couple of individuals and businesspeople recently who said that filing a BP claim might be wrong, and that they have seen on the news that one of the claims adjuster?s lawyers committed fraud. It?s a ?one bad apple? scenario, but enough to support BP?s media campaign to scare off potential claimants from filing.
While in discussion over the BP settlement in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill suit recently, I heard about the letter Bobo Cunningham wrote to to the editor of a local paper concerning the settlement BP agreed to pay. Mr. Cunningham?s letter was apparently prompted by a letter BP?s lawyers were disseminating to lawyers and individuals who filed claims under the settlement. BP was threatening lawsuits against everyone filing claims, and promised plaintiff lawyers it would sue to take back money firms were paying their clients out of the claims proceeds BP set aside for such purpose. Though written by BP?s lawyers, the blustering and posturing letter was like its arguments before the trial court, a propaganda campaign entirely without merit.
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