Settlements for offshore oil workers and small businesses after oil pipeline shutdown

Our clients were workers and small businesses at and supporting offshore oil rigs near Santa Barbara. After the onshore oil pipeline that they depended on shut down, they lost jobs, wages and profits. The pipeline owner denied responsibility and resisted paying for their losses.

We fought for justice for our clients in multi-forum litigation over the course of eight years, including in a federal class action, criminal court victim restitution actions and civil court mass tort actions. The defendants argued that their conduct did not cause our clients’ injuries, even though in the thirty years prior there had never been an industry wide shut down or mass layoffs.

Over the course of more than eight years of litigation, we secured individual settlements totaling close to $20 million for the clients to restore lost wages, profits, and expenses.