The Gulf Oil Spill Creates a Hayday for Local and National Law Firms

Law firms across the Gulf Coast are using every type of media to advertise their availability for BP related cases. Television commercials, radio spots and newspaper ads have found a fresh source of revenue which, if things continue as they have, will most likely be around for a long time.

According to the Mobile Press Register www.mobileregister.com as of Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 50 lawsuits have been filed against BP in Mobile's federal court house. Across the nation there have been 225 suits, including those by relatives of these who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Turn on the television in Mobile and almost every other commercial is touting the ability of a law firm to help you get what you deserve from BP.

An environmental group has filed a Clean Water Act citizens suit against BP and TransOcean, Ltd. and is asking for the highest amount of civil penalties ever imposed under the nation's premiere water pollution prevention. The lawsuit, which was filed by the Center for Biological Diversity in U.S. District Court in New Orleans June 18, asks that a federal judge impose the maximum $4,300 per barrel of oil leaked since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20.

According to www.Bloomberg.com, individuals, companies and investors from 11 states have now files suits against BP including businesses and property owners in Georgia and South Carolina even though the oil has yet to approach those coastlines.

Another site, www.aboutlawsuits.com, reported that as of the end of May suits have been filed by the following thus far -

• Fishermen
• Oyster farmers
• Shrimpers
• Coastal property owners
• Charter boat operators
• Coastal tourism business owners
• Deepwater Horizon workers or family members of workers injured or killed.

They also provide a link on the site for you to write to an attorney to have your case reviewed.

The New York Daily News - www.nydailynews.com reposts that New York is mulling a lawsuit against BP over lost millions in state and city pension funds. The fund has lost $30 million in its slumping BP shares.

Clearly the ramifications of this spill are far from just coastal. Across the country people and business are being affected by the disaster and there are plenty of law firms that are ready to see to it that BP sees their claims as legitimate too!