BP Bid for Spill Payment Freeze Gets Friday Court Hearing
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BP Plc’s request to temporarily halt payments from the court-supervised settlement program set up after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be considered at a hearing this week.
BP yesterday asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to suspend payments while Louis Freeh, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, probes possible misconduct in the claims program. Barbier set a hearing on the motion for July 19 in federal court in New Orleans, ordering responses to London-based BP’s claims to be filed by tomorrow.