A federal judge overseeing the $9.2 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement has approved creation of a committee headed by a local law professor to audit oil-spill claims.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier on Wednesday approved the appointment of P. Raymond Lamonica, a professor at Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, as chairman of the committee. Lamonica has served as special counsel to Louisiana and as general counsel to the LSU system. He was U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana from 1986 to 1994.
