BP, oil spill victims fight over venue for court casesSimon Shifrin
A district court and an appeals court ruled that, under the settlement BP agreed to, businesses do not have to prove they were directly harmed by the spill to collect money - only that they made less money in the three to eight months after the spill than in a comparable pre-spill perio...
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...
Justice Samuel Alito, who has previously disclosed investments in energy companies, didn't participate in the case. The Supreme Court's decision doesn't address the merits of the climate claims, but it gives oil and gas companies a fresh chance to steer litigation toward the federal court ...
"The whole matter of the BOP, whether it worked or didn't work ... could change the whole outcome of the whole investigation," says Daniel Becnel, an attorney representing a host of plaintiffs in the consolidated federal court case. ...
and legal rights, through injunctive, declaratory, and equitable relief issued by this Court before such claims are forever barred by adoption of Instagram’s New Terms,” the filing said. “For this reason, even though the New Terms are not yet effective, this case is ‘ripe’ for adjudicat...
A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case last Monday. The panel didn't indicate how soon it would rule. Last month, Juneau announced that his office is investigating allegations that an attorney on his staff, Lionel H. Sutton III, received a portion...
Volkswagen's emissions scandal could be far more painful for investors than BP's disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit Suisse (CS) estimates that the total cost to the company could hit 78 billion euros ($87 billion) in a worst case scenario. That's about 60% more th...
and a felony count of lying to Congress. As of February 2013, criminal and civil settlements and payments to a trust fund had cost the company $42.2 billion. In September 2014, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that BP was primarily responsible for the oil spill because of its gross neg...
Wrong or right may have nothing to do with it. Pat Juneau, the claims administrator awarding the compensation told 60 Minutes that he questioned the eligibility formula because it didn't require proof of a link to the spill. BP replied in the court record that if the numbers fit the formul...