Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 26, 2022
Intense mediation led to oil spill deal, lawsuits against ship owners are next
“We are still negotiating on how to pull the pipe out of the ocean. That’s the major next step,” said plaintiffs colead counsel Wylie A. Aitken of Aitken Aitken Cohn. “The pipe has to be inspected and is going to determine how it created the spillage.”
In-depth, concentrated negotiations overcame disagreements and led to Amplify Energy’s tentative settlement with hundreds of Orange County businesses and property owners damaged by the 2021 undersea Huntington Beach oil spill and now attorneys are focused on the ships blamed for tearing a hole in the pipeline.
“A lot of details still need to be worked out, one of them being injunctive relief,” said Wylie A. Aitken of Aitken Aitken Cohn, col...
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