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BP Asks Court to Suspend Spill Claims Pending Probe
2013-07-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: British oil giant BP asked a federal judge late Tuesday to order that all payments from its multibillion dollar Gulf oil spill civil settlement be suspended until an independent investigation of the claims administrators office is concluded. The company said in a filing in federal court in New Orleans that it is seeking an emergency temporary injunction to block further payments from the settlement. So far, claims administrator Patrick Juneau has offered about $4 billion to victims of the...
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