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Judge Halts Any Ecuadorean Pollution Award Against Chevron
Posted on 10 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) A federal judge took the unusual step Tuesday of blocking a potential multi-billion-dollar judgment against Chevron Corp. for environmental damage in Ecuador for at least 28 days after concluding that lawyers representing 30,000 Ecuadoreans... Read More

Tags: New York , Ecuador , Elsen , Lewis A. Kaplan , Judgment , environment , environmental damage , oil , Litigation , Mastro , lawsuit , Chevron

Chevron Countersues Ecuador Pollution Claimants
Posted on 2 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SAN RAMON, Calif. - (AP) Chevron Corp. on Tuesday filed a countersuit against trial lawyers and their consultants for what it says was a campaign to rig the Ecuadorean court system in a bid to win billions of dollars in a pollution claim. The step is... Read More

Tags: Ecuador , trial lawyers , Texaco , pollution , "Crude" , environmental damage , San Ramon , Stratus Consulting , oil , racketeering , Litigation , lawsuit , Chevron , Steven Donzinger

AIG Pays $23M In Gulf Oil Spill Claims; Total May Rise
Posted on 6 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) Taxpayers took another hit, this one indirect, from the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion through insurance claims related to the disaster. AIG, the insurance giant that is 80 percent owned by the government, said... Read More

Tags: fisheries , Chartis , property damage , oil spill , wrongful death , Gulf spill , AIG , Deepwater Horizon , environmental damage , American International Group , cleanup , Litigation , Insurance , class actions , lawsuit , bodily injury , Gulf Coast , BP , business interruption , Gulf of Mexico