Articles by Moira Herbst

Judicial Oversight Could Mean Changes for BP Claim Fund

Kenneth Feinberg, the formerly freewheeling administrator of BP Plc’s fund to compensate victims of last year’s oil spill, could be forced to revamp dramatically how he handles claims now that the fund has come under the jurisdiction of a federal …

Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in BP Litigation Fighting Over Claims Fund

Plaintiffs’ lawyers battling BP Plc in the oil-spill litigation may be united in the desire to make the company pay, but they’ve started fighting over whether to try to rein in Kenneth Feinberg, who runs BP’s $20 billion oil-spill victims’ …