It appears that the Deepwater Horizon action is rapidly coming to a close as reported below.

      District court judge denies request for Deepwater claims extension. The Houston Chronicle (10/11, Pickrell, 443K) reports that US District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans “refused to extend a Nov. 1 deadline for plaintiffs to opt out of a proposed settlement of economic claims against BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.” Some potential “claimants argued that they didn’t have enough information to decide whether to opt out, since many have not received settlement offers from the court-supervised Deepwater Horizon Claims Center.” However, Barbier said such an extension is now “premature and unnecessary.” Hearings are set to start Nov. 8 “to assess the fairness of the proposed settlement.”