Supreme Court Orders BP to Pay Up

Posted by | June 13, 2014 00:31 | Filed under: Planet Politics Top Stories


BP is appealing, but must pay claims to businesses while they fight it in court over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Steve Herman and Jim Roy, lead attorneys for businesses and individuals who have filed claims against BP, said in a one-sentence statement that the order “will allow businesses to continue to receive the compensation they’re rightly entitled to according to the objective, transparent formulas agreed to by BP.”

BP will ask the high court to review whether it must pay claims without any apparent connection to the spill, company spokesman Geoff Morrell said in an emailed statement.

“The company continues to believe that the lifting of the injunction suspending the payment of business economic loss claims will allow hundreds of millions of dollars to be irretrievably scattered to claimants whose losses were not plausibly caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident,” he wrote.

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