Victims’ attorneys attack BP’s effort to block spill payments
Attorneys for victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill say BP's latest effort to halt payments from its multibillion-dollar class action settlement should be denied because the company has failed...
View ArticleAlaskans to get $900 in oil wealth checks this year
Nearly every Alaska resident will receive a check for $900, as this year’s share of the state’s oil wealth.
View ArticleCourt sets deadline for proposed new oil spill payment rules
BP and attorneys for victims in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have until 5 p.m. on Tuesday to work out language for a “narrowly tailored” preliminary injunction that would suspend settlement payments to...
View ArticleBig Oil keeps up fight against disclosure of foreign government payments
The oil industry is continuing its fight against disclosures of specific company payments to foreign governments.
View ArticleJudge suspends BP spill payments to businesses
A federal judge has temporarily suspended BP oil spill settlement payments to businesses while he reconsiders the company’s arguments against compensating those that cannot trace losses directly to...
View ArticleBP asks court to suspend seafood payments for fraud probe
BP Plc asked a U.S. judge to stop payments in the $2.3 billion seafood-industry portion of its settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, pending an investigation of a fraud claim against a...
View ArticleBP takes latest arguments over spill payments to appeals court
BP is again asking a New Orleans appeals court to intervene after a federal judge denied its latest attempt to block some payments in its multibillion-dollar oil spill settlement.
View ArticleBP loses bid to halt oil spill payments during high court review
BP can’t delay writing checks for hundreds of millions of dollars in damage claims while it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review disputed payments in its $9.2 billion accord over the 2010 Gulf of...
View ArticleBP seeks return of millions in oil spill damage payments
BP want back millions of dollars in oil spill claims payments it says were “erroneous.”
View ArticleBritain goes to bat for BP in Supreme Court brief
The British government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to show mercy on BP as the London oil company faces steep costs for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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