Court Refuses to Dismiss Injury Claims Against Gulf Spill Cleanup Companies

摘要

Houston-Companies that conducted cleanup efforts using chemical dispersants after the Deep-water Horizon oil spill cannot share the government's immunity from personal injury lawsuits unless they can prove they took direction from the government and not from BP Pic, a federal judge has ruled (In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, E.D. La., MDL No. 2179, order 9/30/11.