Category: BP Disaster
Over 99 percent of BP claims are accurate
An independent audit has revealed that more than 99 percent of the claims processed under BP’s settlement from its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill…
Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Program to Hold Public Meeting in Pensacola, Nov. 24
The Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) will host a public information session on Monday, Nov. 24, from 6 p.m. to 8 pm at the Escambia…
BP seeks reduction in oil spill fines #nosurprise
BP asked Federal Judge Carl Barbier on Friday to cap its potential oil-spill pollution fines at a maximum of $12.3 billion. Prosecutors have said BP…
Nearly 85 percent of BP economic loss claims in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties remain unpaid
According to the website LegalExaminer.com, 2,415 BP economic loss claims have been filed in Escambia County with the BP Deepwater Horizon Court Supervised Settlement Program….
Here we go again: BP asks judge to reconsider ruling
Yesterday BP was back in federal court asking that it reconsider the September ruling of Judge Carl Barbier that found the company “grossly negligent” for…
BP can not force settlement dollars be returned
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled on Wednesday the Gulf Coast businesses won’t have to payback the claims BP paid them as the result of…
Sea monsters and BP oil spill
The Bellona Foundation reports the Louisiana shrimpers are reporting an ever-rising rash of horrifically mutated shrimp, crabs and other sea life covered with oozing growths…
BP petitions SCOTUS
British oil giant, BP, petitioned on Friday the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its battle over claim payments resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon…
BP employees lawsuit over BP oil disaster revived
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans revived yesterday a lawsuit in which participants in four BP Plc employee retirement savings plans…
BP shuts down its oil spill claims program
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court saying that the British oil giant had to pay business claims tied to the 2010 BP oil…
Supreme Court turns down BP request to suspend paying claims
The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to halt BP’s payments of claims stemming from 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In a one-sentence order issued…
BP says it will appeal to Supreme Court
Reuters is reporting that BP said today that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a court ruling concerning the 2010 Gulf of…
