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2 Jul 2015, 6:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
WSJ blog: “BP PLC agreed Thursday to pay $18.7 billion to settle federal and state claims over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [read post]
8 May 2010, 11:00 pm
British Petroleum, now know as BP Plc, will not be the only company in the mix and responsible for the massive and unprecedented oil spill now in progress in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 11:00 am by Maritime Law Staff
BP Plc is finally going to receive government documents that may shed light on the size of the April 10, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 4:52 pm
.” (Legal Week; PointofLaw.com) Last Friday, according to the various press reports - for example: here, here and here - the London Pension Fund Authority - with assets of £3.5 billion one of the UK’s largest administering authorities of the Local Government Pension Scheme - brought a derivative action against BP Plc (LSE, NYSE: BP) and its outgoing chief executive Lord John Browne of Madingley in relation to the latter’s pay. [read post]
29 May 2014, 3:50 am by Lyle Denniston
Just over four years after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the British oil giant BP PLC asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to put on hold lower court rulings that it contends would mandate hundreds of millions of dollars in unconstitutional payments on damage claims. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 2:54 pm
District Court for the Southern District of Texas has tossed out a would-be class action securities lawsuit challenging BP plc’s (BP) cancellation of a 2010 first quarter dividend announcement after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 8:15 pm
"BP Seeks Payment Changes That May Reignite Damages Fight": Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Daniel Lawton of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, "BP Plc asked a U.S. appeals court to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a move opposing lawyers said might open the floodgates to hundreds of thousands of individual damage-claim awards. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 9:59 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Koonin, currently the Under Secretary of Energy for Science at the United States Department of Energy, was previously the Chief Scientist for BP plc, where he was responsible for guiding the company’s long-range technology strategy.Koonin started his job at BP in 2004, following 29 years as a physics professor at CalTech. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 3:14 pm by Securites Lawprof
La.) against BP PLC, alleging material misstatements in connection with its safety record. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 4:07 pm by Mark J. Astarita, Esq.
Reuters is reporting that the SEC is investigatingwhether people may have illegally profited from trading on nonpublic information at BP Plc (BP.L) (BP.N) in the weeks and months following the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 8:00 am by Greene LLP
The state of California has decided to intervene in a relator’s complaint filed under the state’s False Claims Act alleging that London-based BP plc (“BP”) and its subsidiaries defrauded taxpayers by inflating natural gas prices under their contractual arrangements as the exclusive supplier to the state of California and its subdivisions. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 5:57 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post is shared from bloomberg.com/Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) –- BP Plc (BP/), having pledged billions of dollars for damages caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, won’t have to make payouts any time soon to more than 95 percent of the workers hurt while cleaning up the mess.If the workers want money for their physical injuries, they’ll need to sue the company, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled yesterday, saying they no longer qualify for… [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 12:29 am
Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of BP PLC’s $20 billion claim fund, recently stated that it is too soon to say whether liability payments related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster will end up exhausting all of the $20 billion BP set aside for all claims.Mr. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 7:39 pm by Larry Jones
Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones PLC attorneys Larry Jones and Jasper Ward are the lead lawyers in a class action lawsuit against BP and others responsible for the worst oil spill in US history. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 11:06 am by Joe Palazzolo
Transocean Ltd. filed a motion in federal court Tuesday to force BP PLC to indemnify it against damages related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 7:32 am
"BP appeals U.S. judge's ruling on size of Gulf oil spill": Reuters has a report that begins, "BP Plc on Monday appealed a federal judge's finding of the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which leaves the company potentially liable to pay $13.7 billion in fines. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 3:27 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
gigaom.com discussed the investment of oil company BP in CoolPlanetBiofuels. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 10:00 pm
BP PLC said Wednesday two of its employees have been hospitalized after suffering steam burns while performing work at a process unit at its Texas City, Texas, refinery. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 11:42 am by Lawyer Sanders
BP Plc agreed to a $20 billion special oil spill claims fund which will meet President Barack Obama’s demand and ease U.S. political pressure on the embattled British energy giant that has unnerved investors. [read post]