The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 states those parties responsible for an oil spill are also financially responsible for any damages it may cause. In the case of the Gulf Coast spill, a number of class action lawsuits have been filed against British Petroleum (BP) on behalf of those who suffere...
The explosion of BP’s Macondo well that resulted in the worst oil spill in the history of the US, killed 11 rig workers and released over 200 million gallons of oil, closing much of the Gulf for months to commercial and recreational fishing and shrimping. While much litigation remains, th...
the disastrous spill damaged the economy, devastated the environment and required thousands of regular people to help clean it up. Those hired workers picked up tar balls on the beach, deployed booms from boats to soak up oil and rescued injured wildlife...
Jury trials for medical lawsuits over BP oil spill approvedAssociated Press
“For a 40-year-old lawyer to find himself 62 years old and working on the same oil spill case is not a happy thing,” says Brian O’Neill, a partner at the Minneapolis firm Faegre & Benson. And yet lawyers caution that filing lawsuits now, as some Gulf Coast shrimpers have already ...
Supreme Court Allows San Francisco, Oakland Lawsuits Against Big Oil Companies To Proceed June 15, 2021 at 5:20 pm SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Two more ambitious lawsuits would be hard to image: in 2017 the cities of Oakland and San Francisco filed separate public nuisance lawsuits against fiv...
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The U.S. Justice Department is expected to join civil lawsuits stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. By joining the private litigation, Justice Department officials will play a major role in the coming trial. Attorneys for private party plaintiffs are expected to consolidate their cases by...
Additional Mexican States Could Join In Filing Lawsuits Against BP Over Oil SpillA lawyer representing three Mexican states that have filed lawsuits against BP in U.S. district court told BNA Sept. 29 that he is encouraging three other states that border the Gulf of Mexico to also make claims...
BP does not have to face US lawsuits by energy and drilling companies over losses they suffered from an offshore drilling ban imposed soon after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judge ruled. US District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans agreed with BP that federal law absolved...