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A panel of the Fifth Circuit held by a 2-1 vote that British Petroleum must pay some business loss claims even if the claimants cannot prove that the blowout at the Deepwater Horizon rig in 2010 actually caused the loss.
The majority ruled that the energy giant agreed to pay claims for losses that
British Petroleum now faces a two-front litigation war.
Yesterday, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent to the U.S. district court in New Orleans dozens of cases alleging personal injury, wrongful death, property damage, and other economic loss resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf
The case didn't involve British Petroleum . . . but you kind of feel it really did involve BP. It should concern the "beyond petroleum" company. At least.
The Supreme Court of Florida held last week that commercial fisherpeople stated statutory and common law claims against a company that spilled phosphates into Tampa Bay six