NEW ORLEANS – Mark Mead and two buddies were fishing fewer than 20 miles away when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burst into flames and lit up the night sky. The trio rushed toward the floating inferno to help pull bodies out of the water. And as oil continued to gush out of BPs broken well over the next four months, Mead helped again as a part of BPs cleanup effort, picking up contaminated boom in the waters off Perdido Key. Despite his heroics, Mead now finds himself among an estimated 20,000 coastal residents and cleanup workers who are part of a medical damages settlement class, but would be blocked from settlement payments under a disputed reading of one phrase buried in an agreement more 1,000 pages long.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:50:42 +0000
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