Family of Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Victim Settles, Withdraws Lawsuit

NEW ORLEANS - U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit brought on behalf of the Estate of Karl Dale Kleppinger, who was believed killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, citing the parties' stipulation and settlement. Kleppinger, et al. v. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc., et al., No. 2:10-CV-03168 [In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL No. 2179] (E.D. La.).

Judge Barbier, who presides over the Deepwater Horizon multi-district litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, …