BP, oil spill victims fight over venue for court casesSimon Shifrin
On April 20, 2010, BP’s oil drilling rig caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Throughout the following months, the company attempted to keep everyone from stockholders to environmental activists updated with their cleanup efforts. The mass amounts of oil that spilled into the Gulf to...
The suits consolidated in federal court in New Orleans were filed by fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant's April 20, 2010 Gulf disaster. The momentous settlement will have no cap to compensate the plaintiffs, though BP PLC es...
Barbier said the settlement averts worries that litigation could continue for 15 to 20 years, as it did after the Exxon Valdez and Amoco Cadiz oil spills, creating a secondary disaster for those affected. Barbier has not ruled on a medical settlement for cleanup workers and others who say expo...
for total cost. The company, which made separate settlements for medical claims and seafood-related business claims, has paid more than $13 billion in claims by individuals, businesses and government entities and another $14 billion-plus on response and cleanup, according to its oil spill web...
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According to Reuters, however, as of September, the British oil and gas company has paid $63.4 billion in legal fees and cleanup costs. The oil spill occurred on April 20, 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 mil...
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the BP spill response, says there also needs to be a reevaluation of existing contingency plans. That should include a look at what people think about the role that responsible parties should have in the cleanup effort, and...
Supreme Court On Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill PaymentsThe U.S. Supreme Court refused to review BP Plc's $9.7 billion settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, turning away the company's argument that hundreds of millions of dollars are going to businesses that weren't harmed. The ...
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