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Where a North Dakota oil company had no business operations in Colorado, but recruited employees from Colorado (and other states) to work on its North Dakota rigs, it could be held responsible for providing workers’ compensation coverage under the...

“The tragic loss of the DEEPWATER HORIZON on April 20, 2010 and still mounting environmental damages from the leaking "Macondo" well at Mississippi Canyon Block 252 have produced a robust, if not always like-minded reaction, in Washington...

NEW ORLEANS - (Mealey's) BP PLC and MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC and affiliates Mitsui Oil Exploration Co. and MOEX USA Corp., which had a 10 percent interest in the Macondo Well where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was drilling, announced May 20 that they...

BATON ROUGE, La. (CompNewsNetwork) - Two hundred and twenty-seven oil spill exposure-related cases have been reported to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) to date, according to its sixth surveillance report released July 16. One hundred...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Beasley Allen on May 13 filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama on behalf of Deupree Outdoor Guide Services Inc., individually and on behalf of commercial charter fishing guide businesses...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (AP) The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout — a devastating sequence of equipment failures — drives home a central unsettling point about America's oil industry...

HOUSTON - (AP) Federal investigators probing the blowout that led to the Gulf oil spill grilled a Halliburton official Tuesday about concerns the petroleum services firm raised over the potential for a severe gas flow problem if a BP plan was used. Halliburton...

NEW ORLEANS – (AP) Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two...

NEW ORLEANS - (AP) Relatives flew over Gulf of Mexico waters on Wednesday where 11 oil rig workers died a year ago, residents gathered in quiet prayer vigils onshore and President Barack Obama vowed to hold BP and others accountable for "the painful...

NEW ORLEANS - (AP) A lawsuit claims that the owner of sunken oil rig in the Gulf of Mexcio inflated its stock by telling shareholders that safety issues with blowout preventers had been resolved. The federal court suit, filed in New Orleans, seeks...

KENNER, La. - (AP) An alarm system was partially shut down the day the ill-fated oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and setting off the massive spill, an electronics technician who was aboard told an investigative...

HOUSTON , TX - Attorneys with the Houston trial law firm Arnold & Itkin LLP yesterday filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Aaron Dale Burkeen , one of 11 men still missing after the recent oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico...

Baton Rouge, LA (CompNewsNetwork) - Two hundred and twenty-seven oil spill exposure-related cases have been reported to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) to date, according to its sixth surveillance report released today. One hundred...