Kenneth Feinberg News

Marathon Bombing Victims Urged to Apply for Funds

The administrator of the Boston Marathon victims’ compensation fund said just five people have filed applications as of Tuesday, and is urging those affected by the blasts to fill out the paperwork before time runs out. The families of the …

Boston Marathon Relief Fund Guidelines Released

The administrator of a fund created to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings has released final guidelines for distributing the money. The document released Wednesday gives top priority to the families of those who died, as well as double …

Boston Tragedy Is Latest Challenge for Victim Compensation Chief Feinberg

His work has immersed him in events that read like a roster of recent catastrophes, from 9/11 to the Gulf oil spill. Now, Kenneth Feinberg is adding the Boston Marathon bombings to that list. The Massachusetts native and attorney is …

BP Oil Spill Settlement Payments Exceed $1B Mark

Businesses and individuals who claim BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company’s class action settlement with a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys, court-supervised claims administrator Patrick …

Feinberg Calls Indiana Stage Collapse Compensation Fair

The architect of compensation for victims of last year’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was “exceedingly fair” with victims. Victims’ compensation specialist Kenneth Feinberg tells The Associated Press that officials had limited resources to …

Gulf Oil Spill: Tales of 3 Plaintiffs

The phone at Joan Strohmeyer’s fishing lodge in Venice, Louisiana, has been ringing steadily since 2010, but not many of the calls are from customers who want to go fishing. Mainly, they are from lawyers who want her to sue …

BP Settlement Relieves Feinberg of Duties; New Claims Process to Start

The man who has paid out billions of dollars to victims of the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been formally relieved of his duties, and a federal judge has set up a new process to let more …

Feinberg: BP Gulf Claims Fund ‘Working As Intended’

On the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, BP Plc is facing challenges to its effort to contain another kind of disaster: mass litigation. The oil giant last June established a $20 billion compensation fund for victims such as …

BP Oil Spill Claims Chief Feinberg to Face Florida Lawmakers

The man in charge of paying BP claims for the Gulf oil spill will soon face a Florida legislative committee to answer questions about how the compensation scheme is going. Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who is overseeing the Gulf Coast …

BP Oil Spill Claims Fund Alters Some Payment Rules

The administrator of BP’s $20 billion Gulf oil spill fund announced new rules on how final payments will be determined in the highly criticized claims process, but the central payment formula remained unchanged from a proposal released earlier this month. …