Lawsuit Against BHP over Brazil Dam Collapse Fails on Appeal in English Court March 25, 2021 By Kirstin Ridley LONDON – A 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group said on Wednesday it had failed to resurrect a 5.0 billion pound ($6.9...
Brazilian Dam Claimants to Take BHP Class Action to English Court of Appeal February 3, 2021 Lawyers for about 200,000 Brazilian claimants, whose multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Anglo-Australian miner BHP over a 2015 dam collapse was...
Miner BHP Calls $6.3B English Lawsuit over Brazil Dam Collapse ‘Pointless and Wasteful’ July 22, 2020 By Kirstin Ridley and Zandi Shabalala Anglo-Australian miner BHP has dismissed as pointless and wasteful a 5 billion pound ($6.3 billion) English lawsuit by 200,000 Brazilian...
Anglo-Australian Miner BHP Faces $6.3B Lawsuit in UK over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster July 15, 2020 By Kirstin Ridley More than 200,000 Brazilian people and groups will next week kick off a 5 billion-pound ($6.3 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian...
Brazil’s Burst Dam Disasters Blamed on Cheap Storage of Mining Waste February 1, 2019 By Laura Millan The deadly collapse of a Vale SA tailings dam in Brazil is serving as a wake-up call for an industry...
Brazil Dam Disaster Could Delay Settlement for 2015’s Samarco Mine Disaster January 30, 2019 Brazil’s deadly tailings dam collapse is likely to complicate a settlement for a similar disaster less than four years ago...
Australia Court Narrows Class-Action Suits Against BHP over Brazil Mine Disaster December 19, 2018 The Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday ordered that the number of class-action lawsuits against BHP Group over a Brazilian...
BHP Readies for Largest English Group Lawsuit over 2015 Brazil Mine Disaster November 26, 2018 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Mining giant BHP says it will fight an unprecedented English lawsuit filed by hundreds of thousands of Brazilians for multi-billion...
PERILS Discloses Final Loss Estimate for UK Storm Desmond of £604M December 2, 2016 PERILS AG has today disclosed its fourth and final loss estimate for the floods in the UK which occurred Dec....
Brazil Charges 21 with Homicide for Failing to Avert Samarco Mine Disaster October 24, 2016 By Marta Nogueira and Jeb Blount Brazilian prosecutors charged 21 people with qualified homicide on Thursday for their roles in the collapse of a tailings dam...