31 Facts About Kenneth Feinberg

Kenneth Roy Feinberg was born on October 23,1945 and is an American attorney specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution.

Additionally, Feinberg served as the government-appointed administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund.

Kenneth Feinberg was retained by General Motors to assist in their recall response and by Volkswagen to oversee their US compensation of VW diesel owners affected by the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

Kenneth Feinberg was hired by The Boeing Company in July 2019, to oversee distribution of $50 million to support 737 MAX crash victim families.

Kenneth Feinberg was born to a Jewish family in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Kenneth Feinberg received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1967 and a JD degree from the New York University School of Law in 1970.

Kenneth Feinberg worked for five years as an administrative assistant and chief of staff for US Senator Ted Kennedy and as a prosecutor for the US Attorney General.

Kenneth Feinberg has served as Court-Appointed Special Settlement Master in cases including Agent Orange product liability litigation, Asbestos Personal Injury Litigation and DES Cases.

Kenneth Feinberg was one of three arbitrators who determined the fair market value of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination and was one of two arbitrators who determined the allocation of legal fees in the Holocaust slave labor litigation.

Kenneth Feinberg is a former Lecturer-in-Law at a number of US law schools.

Kenneth Feinberg developed the regulations governing the administration of the fund and administered all aspects of the program, including evaluating applications, determining appropriate compensation and disseminating awards.

Kenneth Feinberg was subjected to some very public criticism at meetings, in the media and on Web sites.

Kenneth Feinberg was able to change the mind of some of his harshest critics.

Kenneth Feinberg wrote that a widow of one firefighter cursed him, saying "I spit on you, and your children," for being unfair in his compensation awards.

On June 10,2009, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed by the US Treasury Department to oversee the compensation of top executives at companies which have received federal bailout assistance.

On June 16,2010, it was reported that Kenneth Feinberg was to run a $20 billion fund to pay claims for the BP oil spill.

Kenneth Feinberg was selected by Obama to oversee the compensation of top executives at bailed out banks.

Kenneth Feinberg has come under harsh criticism from public interest groups for refusing to disclose the amount of his compensation or the details of his arrangement with the company.

Mr Kenneth Feinberg, employed by BP, has decided on his own authority that all claims recipients must release all companies who caused this disaster from any and all legal responsibility, no matter how grossly negligent they were.

In January 2011, Judge Barbier, the federal judge over the oil spill litigation, after hearing evidence and arguments of the attorneys, ruled that Kenneth Feinberg was not independent of BP and could no longer claim to be so.

Kenneth Feinberg had been telling victims he was their lawyer and did not answer to BP.

Four months later, Kenneth Feinberg said that he expected settlement discussions with 28 people to yield results within a matter of weeks.

Kenneth Feinberg oversaw the disbursement of donations to the injured victims and families of the deceased in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting that left 12 people dead and 70 others wounded.

Kenneth Feinberg will oversee Treasury's implementation of Kline-Miller, including the review of applications to determine whether they meet the requirements set by Congress.

Kenneth Feinberg will ensure that affected stakeholders have a single point of contact dedicated to this process.

In February 2016, it was announced that Kenneth Feinberg would be heading up the compensation fund for Volkswagen.

In March 2016, the United States Department of Justice appointed Kenneth Feinberg to oversee the Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund.

In 2019, Kenneth Feinberg worked pro bono to mediate the impasse between representatives of factions within the United Methodist Church regarding its position on homosexuality.

In 2021, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed as the Special Master in the Roundup Product Multi-District Litigation by the United States District Court, Northern California District.

Kenneth Feinberg is determining the value of a person's life to help Bayer settle thousands of law suits.

Kenneth Feinberg was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and gave the commencement address at Saint Anselm College in 2023.