April 13, 2016
Two workers and their spouses said Wednesday they have agreed to settle claims against contractor Grand Isle Shipyard and its insurer in litigation over a 2012 Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC oil rig explosion that killed three people, two months before a June trial.
December 07, 2015
The proposed jury form in a wrongful death suit involving three welders killed in a 2012 Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC oil rig explosion is counterproductive, unnecessarily confusing and needs to be revised, the employees and contractors told a Louisiana federal court Friday.
October 01, 2015
A Reich Album & Plunkett LLC attorney must attend 10 hours of continuing legal education for harassing Black Elk's former CEO at a deposition concerning three oil rig workers' deaths, after a Louisiana magistrate judge affirmed the sanction was appropriate Wednesday.
March 25, 2015
Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC urged a Louisiana federal court Tuesday to maintain a magistrate judge's order that a Reich Album & Plunkett LLC must attend 10 hours of continuing legal education as a sanction for harassing Black Elk's former CEO at a deposition concerning three oil rig workers' deaths.
March 17, 2015
A Reich Album & Plunkett LLC name partner argued Tuesday that a Louisiana magistrate judge was wrong to order him to undergo 10 hours of continuing legal education for repeatedly asking Black Elk Energy LLC's CEO at deposition if he was sorry for three oil rig workers' deaths.
March 03, 2015
A Louisiana federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned an attorney for unprofessional and harassing conduct while deposing the CEO of Black Elk Energy LLC and ordered him to attend 10 hours of continuing legal education, saying fines have proven ineffective given previous sanctions for similar behavior.