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Judge Grants Tentative Approval to $7.8 Billion BP Oil Spill Settlement
Published by Rhonda Miller on 02 May 2012 07:23pm A federal judge in New Orleans granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a proposed settlement of $7.8 billion in BP oil spill claims. MPB’s Rhonda Miller reports the decision affects thousands of Mississippi residents and businesses. Standing on the porch of his Ocean Springs home, fisherman Anthony [...]
Ex-BP worker facing 40 years: Former engineer allegedly erased texts in aftermath of oil spill
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of destroying records requested by prosecutors investigating the deadly 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Kurt Mix, 50, of Katy, Texas, was charged [...]
Alligator Bayou owners: parishes ruined our business
Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening the bayou’s floodgate in 2009 and ruining the company’s business, an attorney for the firm told a state appellate court Thursday. “They (Iberville and Ascension governments) destroyed the swamp tour business. They (the company’s owners) should be compensated,’’ Clay Garside, [...]
BP Oil Spill: A Tale of Three Plaintiffs
VENICE (LOUISIANA): The phone at Joan Strohmeyer’s fishing lodge has been ringing steadily since 2010, but not many of the calls are from customers who want to go fishing. Mainly, they are from lawyers who want her to sue British oil company BP Plc. The tidy, 62-room Lighthouse Lodge is perched near the Gulf of [...]
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts Published: Sunday, March 04, 2012, 3:11 PM Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012, 6:19 AM By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune After reaching a deal Friday night to settle health and economic damage claims by individuals and businesses who were harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP and [...]
Gulf oil spill settlement reached; BP expected to pay out $7.8 billion
Friday, March 02, 2012, 11:00 PM Updated: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 12:12 AM By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune BP and the private plaintiffs in the massive Gulf oil spill litigation have reached a settlement that BP estimates will cost $7.8 billion. But that is an uncapped amount, an the court still must supervise the payment [...]
