Sentence examples for disaster litigation from inspiring English sources

He brought a landmark case against the alleged financial sponsors of Hamas and other terrorist organisations in Israel and was a leader in the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster litigation involving people and businesses in Gulf Coast communities suffering as a result of the oil spill.

As with the Exxon Valdez disaster, litigation is being discussed in terms of a 20 year timescale.

Mr. Berger and his three founding partners started the firm in 1983 after splitting off from Kreindler & Kreindler, a plaintiffs' firm best known for its aviation-disaster litigation.

New Orleans, meanwhile, was slowly becoming headquarters for the second time in five years to teams of lawyers specialising in post-disaster litigation.

It's a recipe for disaster — and litigation.

There will be no let-up in demand for high-yield catastrophe bonds, which provide lower returns in the event of a natural disaster, and litigation finance, in which investors underwrite lawsuits that may lead to big settlements.

The guidelines outlined by Mr. Feinberg relied on two reports, one by Mr. Tunnell and another by the Analysis Research Planning Corporation, an economics consulting firm with experience in evaluating disasters for litigation.

She has written two books on surviving the Exxon Valdez oil spill - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths on biological impact of oil to people and wildlife, and Not One Drop on emotional impact of disaster trauma and litigation to people and community.

But because we had to repair our finances after the disaster of the Fayed litigation, I couldn't accept the invitation at the time.

The oil giant filed lawsuits in New Orleans against Halliburton, which provided the cement for the well;  Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig; and Cameron International, the company that made the blowout preventer that failed last year, on the deadline for bringing certain kinds of suits in the federal litigation surrounding the disaster.

Mr. Feinberg halted payments on Tuesday while seeking clarification from the federal judge overseeing litigation related to the disaster.