The owner of a Mississippi seafood company has filed a federal class-action lawsuit over the rig explosion that caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The suit by Jerry Forte, owner of Jerry Forte Seafood in Pass …
BP Plc will compensate all those affected by an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico, its chief executive said, accepting the disaster could hit plans to open new areas off the U.S. coast to …
Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced preliminary estimates of expected claims, relating to the recent explosion of the Deepwater Horizon Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico, as in “the range of $60-$70 million.” The bulletin added that these “losses are expected …
U.S. Congressman Charlie Melancon of Louisiana has urged federal administrators to direct disaster funding to Louisiana’s commercial and recreational fishermen as a result of the explosion and oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig off Louisiana’s coast. In his letter …
A massive oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River Thursday as it threatens the environmentally delicate coastline of Louisiana and three other …
Shrimpers in Louisiana and Alabama have filed class-action lawsuits against oil giant BP Plc and owners of the drilling platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, as claims for economic losses anticipated from the disaster began to mount. Two …
The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday five times as much oil as previously estimated was leaking from a well beneath the site of a deadly drilling rig explosion as the slick threatened wide-scale coastal damage for four U.S. Gulf Coast …
Crews have been using a robot submarine to try to stop an oil leak resulting from the explosion at an oil drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana. The oil is leaking nearly a mile below the surface of the …
A lawsuit brought by Massachusetts residents who say their property values dropped after a barge spilled nearly 100,000 gallons of oil in Buzzards Bay in 2003 is scheduled to start. The New Bedford Standard-Times reports that the class action suit …
Donald Forsythe and Fred Wilder, founders of Wilder-Forsythe Inc. insurance agency, picked an awful location to sell insurance. The small office building they bought in 1974 in the far-northern New York city of Ogdensburg sits on land, formerly a gas …
