Attorneys Ted Frank and Darrell Palmer have withdrawn their appeals of two settlements with BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill after several of their former clients accused them of misconduct.
Frank, a Washington attorney and founder of the Center for Class Action Fairness, and Palmer, a solo practitioner in Carlsbad, Calif., were fired by three of their clients on Nov. 22. Those objectors, Florida property owners now represented by Ronnie Penton, a solo practitioner in Bogalusa, La., voluntarily withdrew their appeals of both the $9.6 billion settlement resolving economic damages claims and a smaller deal over medical claims associated with the 2010 spill’s cleanup, citing their prior counsel’s “unauthorized and unapproved actions and conduct.”
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