BP Will Face ‘Thousands’ of Spill Cases, Judge Says
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BP Plc and other companies will face “thousands” of lawsuits over the oil spill set off by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April, a judge with about 400 such cases in his court said.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans is overseeing oil-spill lawsuits already filed seeking damages for everything from loss of business revenue to environmental cleanup costs. Barbier began a hearing today to organize the cases over the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, saying he wasn’t sure how many have been moved to his court.