Navigators Insurance, part of The Hartford, does not have to cover most medical and injury claims from 2,000 workers who cleaned beaches after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal appeals court decided Wednesday. In a case that centered on a new type of legal claim for...
BP, oil spill victims fight over venue for court casesSimon Shifrin
BP PLC wanted the court to consider whether people and businesses seeking payments under the settlementincluded some who haven't actually suffered any injury related to the spill. A district court and an appeals court ruled that, under the settlement BP agreed to, businesses do not have to prov...
as it did after the Exxon Valdez and Amoco Cadiz oil spills, creating a secondary disaster for those affected. The Star also notes that no ruling has been made on a medical settlement for cleanup workers and others who say exposure
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...
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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...
BP and Transocean filed papers Monday in the US District Court in New Orleans asking District Judge Carl Barbier to dismiss most of the claims against them filed by individuals and businesses who said they were harmed by the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the oil spill that followed. 机译:BP...
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 ...
The UK - based oil giant said it will ask the Supreme Court to review several court rulings which found that businesses pursuing claims against BP under a 2012 settlement agreement do not have to prove that their losses were in fact caused by the spill.Bill Murray...