Top 2013 Jury Awards: Price-Fixing, Nursing Home Liability, Defamation January 14, 2014 By Margaret Cronin Fisk U.S. juries awarded three verdicts of $1 billion or more for the third straight year in 2013, topped by a...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Fight Wages On January 13, 2014 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc’s $9.2 billion partial settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was upheld by an appeals court...
Appeals Court to Fast-Track BP’s Bid to Halt Gulf Oil Spill Payments January 3, 2014 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc’s bid to block economic-loss payments tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill unless the claims can...
BP Seeks Halt to Oil Spill Payments to Seafood Firms, Alleges Attorney Fraud December 18, 2013 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc asked a U.S. judge to stop payments in the $2.3 billion seafood-industry portion of its settlement over the...
Ex-BP Engineer Destroyed Gulf Spill Evidence, Jury Told December 17, 2013 By Daniel Lawton and Margaret Cronin Fisk A former BP Plc engineer deliberately destroyed evidence sought by the U.S. for a probe of the 2010 Gulf of...
Judge Blocks BP Investors from Suing as Group Over Losses December 9, 2013 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc’s U.S. investors can’t pursue as a group claims that the company inflated its shares with misleading statements before...
Anadarko, BP Seek Reversal of Oil Spill Clean Water Act Ruling December 5, 2013 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Daniel Lawton Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and BP Plc asked an appeals court to throw out a judge’s finding that both companies were...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Opponents Ask Court to Rescind Approval November 4, 2013 By Allen Johnson Jr. and Margaret Cronin Fisk Opponents of BP Plc’s $9.2 billion partial settlement of private-party claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are...
BP Exposed Neighbors to Toxic Gases, Jury Told at Trial End October 8, 2013 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc deliberately exposed neighbors of a Texas refinery to tons of cancer-causing gases and then misled regulators and community...
Court Grants BP Review of Disputed Claims Paid to Gulf Oil Spill Victims October 3, 2013 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc persuaded an appeals court to order a re-examination of key terms of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil-spill...