Texas lawyer Mikal Watts has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Mississippi for allegedly filing false claims for...
Articles by Laurel Brubaker Calkins
BP Plc must face institutional investors’ claims for more than $2.5 billion in market losses caused by the plunge in...

BP Plc’s record $18.7 billion settlement ended government claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, leaving numerous smaller...
New Dominion LLC can be sued by an Oklahoma woman injured when her fireplace fell on her during an earthquake...
BP Plc won’t seek to access Transocean Ltd.’s $750 million insurance policy for the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded while...
Last week’s ruling that BP Plc’s Macondo well dumped less oil into the Gulf of Mexico than the U.S. government...
The government wants BP Plc to pay $16 billion to $18 billion in water-pollution fines for the worst offshore oil...
BP Plc challenged a federal judge’s ruling that the company’s exploration unit acted with gross negligence in causing the 2010...
BP Plc, having pledged billions of dollars for damages caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, won’t have...
BP Plc lost a bid to remove Patrick Juneau, the claims administrator overseeing payouts for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico...