August 06, 2014
A New Orleans law firm seeking $7.9 million from BP PLC over allegedly false fraud accusations regarding Deepwater Horizon oil spill claims told a Louisiana federal court on Wednesday that the defamation suit lacked diversity jurisdiction and thus belonged in state court.
June 27, 2014
BP PLC urged a Louisiana federal judge on Friday to order businesses to repay it hundreds of millions of dollars in "improperly calculated" overpayments they were awarded from the settlement of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
June 13, 2014
The U.S. government on Wednesday asked a Louisiana federal judge to order BP PLC to provide a witness to testify as to how the oil giant has accounted for costs related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, contending that the documentation BP has provided thus far doesn't explain the accounting system.
June 06, 2014
A Louisiana federal judge on Friday shut down the federal government's bid to gain access to BP PLC's database of injuries and illnesses reported by response workers and members of the public after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
May 27, 2014
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday rejected BP PLC's request to keep in place a stay suspending payments from its estimated $9.2 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement until after the U.S. Supreme Court has considered its bid challenging awards to claimants without proof of damages directly tied to the oil spill.
May 22, 2014
BP PLC urged the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to keep in place a stay suspending payments from its estimated $9.2 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement until after the U.S. Supreme Court has considered its bid challenging awards to claimants without proof of damages directly tied to the oil spill.
May 21, 2014
BP PLC is taking its estimated $9.2 billion settlement challenge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, pledging Wednesday to formally ask the justices to overturn a Fifth Circuit decision upholding a deal that allows some payments without proof of damages from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
April 25, 2014
The Downs Law Group PA on Friday told a federal judge overseeing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill multidistrict litigation that Florida state court is the proper venue for two Louisiana law firms to claim they were unfairly terminated from representing 1,700 mutual clients seeking settlement payouts for spill-related medical bills.
April 03, 2014
Liberty Insurance Underwriters Inc. told a Louisiana federal judge Wednesday that it has no duty to pay $50 million of Cameron International Corp.'s $250 million settlement with BP PLC over Cameron's failed Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer.
March 26, 2014
The Louisiana federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Tuesday blocked BP PLC and plaintiffs' lawyers from reviewing pending claims in the $9.2 billion settlement with victims of the spill.