Attorneys' Procedural Mistake Won't Bar Workers From Advancing Claims Against BP

A federal trial court judge in Louisiana is allowing two BP Exploration & Production employees to move forward with their claims that they were sickened by their chemical exposures while participating in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Although Fabio Concepcion and Mickey Joseph Thibodaux didn’t timely file their claims, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier concluded that they should not be punished for a their counsel’s procedural flub. Concepcion and Thibodaux had been parties to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Medical Benefits Class Action Settlement Ag...