The day after the April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, Brent Coon & Associates got involved in what has become massive tort litigation.
Brent Coon says his firm began working on cases stemming from the explosion and subsequent oil spill when an injured oil rig worker asked to be represented by an attorney at Coon & Associates. On behalf of Stephen Stone and his wife, the firm filed Stone, et al. v. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc., et al. in a state district court in Harris County. The defendants removed Stone to federal court, and the case wound up in the multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
