That Time a Dog Claimed $46,000 in Damages From the BP Oil Spill
A plaintiffs' attorney is under indictment for claiming thousands of fake clients, including one who turned out to be a canine named Lucy Lu.
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BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony. Now there's more evidence to back that up.
BP has admitted fault in connection with the huge spill and is in the process of paying out tens of billions of dollars in government and individual claims, some civil and some criminal. At the same time, however, the British oil giant says that many of the demands made against its various claim funds have had scant, if any, connection to the catastrophe that killed 11 rig workers and spewed oil off the shore of Louisiana and other gulf states.