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17 Aug 2010, 12:31 pm by Joe Tort
So far, BP has paid out $352 million in emergency payments for 114,100 claims, and BP has received a total of... [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 11:00 am by buslawblogger
Sure, the request was for a lot of money ($20 billion to be exact) and BP is a business.... [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 7:01 am by Maritime Law Staff
BP is claiming that it was the flawed design that caused an unreasonable amount of risk that harm would occur. [read post]
15 Oct 2012, 9:22 am by Legal Talk Network
In March of 2012, BP Oil reached a proposed class action settlement with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee which BP has valued at about $7.8 billion. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 1:46 pm by shanti@elt-inc.com
As BP continues its efforts to cap the devastating oil spill in the gulf, government officials are directing their investigations to accountability and prevention. [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 9:28 pm
Specifically, in this most recent round of fines, OSHA issued the BP Texas City refinery 709 citations with a total fine exceeding $80 Million, finding the exact same safety problems at the refinery BP was punished for in 2005. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 6:52 am
The report makes clear that BP, as the owner of the well, was responsible for the accident and further indicates that Transocean and Halliburton, BP's chief contractors who supplied the cement, contributed to the deadly errors. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 7:04 pm
Currently, BP has placed $9.5 billion aside in the trust to pay the loss claims. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 6:02 pm
[JURIST] BP Exploration Alaska (BPXA), a subsidiary of British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website], pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the Clean Water Act [text] in a case stemming from the March 2006 oil spill [JURIST report] at the company's Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 11:59 am by BH
Similarly, Thursday morning consisted of the direct examination of one of BP’s expert witness, Arthur Zatarain, an electrical engineer. [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 11:27 am by Associated Press
The settlement will likely mark the end of major litigation against BP, following the biggest offshore oil spill in ... [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 9:12 am by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday dismissed [order, PDF] consolidated racketeering claims against British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 11:42 am by Peter Snyder
In his 153-page decision, Judge Carl Barbier determined that 67 percent of the blame for the disaster rests with BP and that the company is "subject to enhanced civil penalties under the Clean Water Act ... as the... [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 7:00 am
Additional Resources: Anadarko Says BP Should Pay After Being Reckless [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 8:29 am by Stephen Adelgren
BP had argued [NYT report] that the settlement agreement allowed many business to collect payments without having to prove that the damage was caused either by the Deepwater... [read post]
21 Feb 2015, 4:51 am by Ashley Hogan
BP's appeal sought to reduce the fine per barrel from the $4,300 proposed by the US government to $3,000 per barrel. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 7:17 am by Eric Needs
Ex-BP rig supervisor gets 10 months’ probation for a misdemeanor pollution charge connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 2:48 pm
[JURIST] The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill[official website] released its full final report [text] on Tuesday, tracing the deeper root causes of the spill and recommending steps to avoid future incidents. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 8:06 am by William Helbling
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday declined [order list, PDF] to review a settlement with BP resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster [JURIST backgrounder]. [read post]