NEW ORLEANS – A court filing last week by BP PLC included what the company deemed a suspicious claim filed by a senior plaintiff’s lawyer as evidence that Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau is unsuitable to oversee the massive oil spill settlement program.
The claim, filed by New Orleans-based law firm Herman Herman & Katz, contends that Plaquemines Parish resident Kim Champlin, of Buras, and his extended family, routinely ate 6,500 pounds of oysters, 3,300 pounds of shrimp, 550 pounds of blue crabs and 100 pounds of redfish in the year leading up to the oil spill. According to BP’s filing, Champlain received just over $250,000 from the settlement trust fund as a result of the claim.
The claim, submitted as part of BP’s drive to have Juneau removed as claims administrator, marks the second time within a month that a seafood claim filed by a Plaintiff’s Steering Committee (PSC) firm has been flagged as suspicious. Earlier in the month, Cunningham Bounds LLC, of Mobile, agreed to pay back fees it collected from the claim of Jason Zirlott after investigators said it appeared fraudulent.
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