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...
Mining Giant BHP Faces $5B Damages Claim over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster May 8, 2019 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is facing a landmark, $5.0 billion damages claim in England for being “woefully negligent” in the...
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...
Brazil Weighs Management Overhaul at Vale After Mine Disaster; Death Toll Rises January 29, 2019 By Gram Slattery Brazil’s government weighed pushing for a management overhaul at iron ore miner Vale SA on Monday as grief over the...
Collapsed Brazil Mining Dam Kills at Least 58, in Echoes of 2015 Disaster January 28, 2019 By Gram Slattery Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a...
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...