BP Plc “conducted an extraordinarily effective response” to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill, the company’s first witness testified Monday as the oil producer sought to minimize potential pollution fines. BP immediately mobilized people and equipment and recovered spilled oil …
Last week’s ruling that BP Plc’s Macondo well dumped less oil into the Gulf of Mexico than the U.S. government claimed may trigger a settlement before a decision on the amount it must pay after a trial set to begin …
The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of neglect, a federal …
BP Plc challenged a federal judge’s ruling that the company’s exploration unit acted with gross negligence in causing the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a decision that exposed the U.K.-based energy company to as much as $18 billion in …
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her fiancé in a 2004 accident involving a since-recalled General Motors Saturn Ion won a reversal of her conviction. Candice Anderson, who was seriously injured in the …
Former Massey Energy chief Donald Blankenship pleaded not guilty to charges linked to the West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 workers in the worst U.S. coal industry disaster in almost 40 years. The former executive, 64, once a powerful …
Confidential settlements over defective Takata Corp. air bags are sealing off relevant information that other victims could use to pursue injury claims. The accords make financial sense for the settling parties, but Takata and other defendants, including Honda Motor Co., …
Jesse Salazar III says an ignition- switch flaw in his 2008 Chevrolet HHR has depressed its value, and he wants manufacturer General Motors Co. to make it up to him. GM will argue in court filings later today that it …
BPlc can’t recover hundreds of millions of dollars it claims to have overpaid some victims for economic losses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge said. After the court revised the method for calculating such damages, …
Juanita Jackson died in July 2003, five weeks after she was removed from a Florida nursing home where her family said continual neglect led to multiple bedsores, malnutrition and a fall that injured her head. Trying to collect a $110 …
