( September 4, 2024, 10:45 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 3 denied plaintiffs’ request to reconsider last month’s reversal of a lower federal court’s enforcement of a settlement in a lawsuit alleging that law firm insureds committed legal malpractice by failing to properly handle plaintiffs’ claims for compensation of damages caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, finding that XE "oil spill" there was no enforceable settlement because the defendants did not accept the plaintiffs’ counteroffer....