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17 Feb 2011, 1:02 pm by Dionne Searcey
It’s not easy being Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion fund that BP and the Obama Administration set up to compensate oil spill victims. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 2:51 pm by Nathan Koppel
New Orleans federal judge Carl Barbier issued an order Wednesday that Kenneth Feinberg, who is administering a $20 billion fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill, can not claim he is fully independent of British Petroleum. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 12:37 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
 More coverage of the decision can be found here and here.Meanwhile, in another proceeding, another federal district court judge in Louisiana held that oil spill compensation fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg is not wholly independent from BP and should not represent himself as such to claimants. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 8:26 pm
District Judge Carl Barbier, the judge presiding over thousands of BP oil spill-related lawsuits,ORDERED BP, and its agents Ken Feinberg, Feinberg Rozen LLP, and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, and any of their representatives to: (1) Refrain from contacting directly any claimant that they know or reasonably should know is represented by counsel, whether or not said claimant has filed a lawsuit or formal claim; (2) Refrain from referring to the GCCF, Ken Feinberg, or… [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 8:53 am by Dionne Searcey
It seemed inevitable when Kenneth Feinberg was put in charge of a $20 billion fund to entice oil spill litigants to settle with BP that eventually many of them would take him up on the offer. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 5:26 am by Donald Barbati
Last week, Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg dismissed all charges against Sergeant Kenneth Riley related to allegations that he wrongfully accessed a police department video database of motor vehicle stops in January of 2008. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 3:28 am by Monroe Freedman
There was a post earlier about the relationship between BP and Kenneth Feinberg. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 12:01 am by John Steele
  The spill led to discussions about the usefulness of plaintiffs’ lawyer, whether there was anything wrong with BP getting “lawyered up,” and questions about the proper compensation of the “czar,” Kenneth Feinberg. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:43 am by Andrew Perlman
We previously blogged about the interesting ethics issues associated with Kenneth Feinberg's administration of the BP compensation fund (here and here). [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:45 am by Dionne Searcey
Plaintiffs' attorneys up in arms over anti-lawyer comments made by BP claims fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg have asked a federal judge to intervene to make him tone down remarks about their litigation over the Gulf oil spill. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 12:13 am by John Steele
 The lawyers are no fan of Kenneth Feinberg, the claims administrator. [read post]
30 Oct 2010, 12:25 pm
Gulf Coast Claims Facility chief Kenneth Feinberg has promised that two documents are being drafted that will provide information about what claimants can expect when the process enters its next stage on Nov. 23, the deadline for filing emergency claims. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 8:52 am by Dionne Searcey
Washington attorney Kenneth Feinberg (pictured) has been charged with one of the most dicey elements: deciding on behalf of BP how to compensate businesses and individuals. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:27 pm by Chip Merlin
When Kenneth Feinberg set up the protocol for distributing the funds to oil spill victims, he wrongly included geographic proximity as a consideration. [read post]