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BP has asked a US court to order a "vast number" of businesses to repay part of the compensation awards they were paid in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The oil firm said the administrator in charge of processing the claims allowed businesses to inflate their losses.
Last year a US court agreed the process was unfair but now the British company wants the money back with interest.
BP has fought a long legal battle in US courts to limit the compensation bill.
In a court filing on Friday, BP asked a US judge to order the businesses to repay the overpayments plus interest, and requested an injunction to prevent firms spending what it called their "windfall".
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28069583
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)They talk big in the beginning for show, then they quietly default on their promises.
shraby
(21,946 posts)making them put a huuuge amount in an account BEFORE any decisions were made on how much they should compensate people.
Exxon got away mostly free, and he didn't want BP to pull the same stinky thing..tie it up in the courts until the people they harmed were broke or dead.
He anticipated them crying like this and was ostracized by the repubs for it.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)phuck BP.