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BP plans big U.S. expansion, wants public trust back
Posted: January 17, 2012 Environmental

Priding itself on “making things right” in Gulf of Mexico and coastal communities hard-hit the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP says it has big plans for expanding its operations in the United States. The announcement wasn’t supposed to comfort residents

Beasley Allen firm seeking BP oil spill damages for city of Troy, Alabama,
Posted: January 14, 2012 Environmental

The Troy, Alabama, city council voted recently to allow the city to pursue a claim against BP for revenues lost during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and in its aftermath. The disastrous oil spill erupted less about 50 miles south

BP tells court Halliburton destroyed key oil-spill evidence
Posted: December 6, 2011 Environmental

BP levied some hefty accusations against Halliburton Energy Services in court Monday, claiming the company intentionally destroyed cement samples, test results, and computer models that would have demonstrated the contractor’s culpability in the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Propofol makers ordered to pay millions for hepatitis outbreak
Posted: October 17, 2011 Product Liability

Three manufacturers of the anesthetic drug propofol have been ordered to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages for selling the drug in large vials that enabled them to be reused by doctors, which led to three colonoscopy patients developing Hepatitis

Orange Beach reaches settlement agreement with BP
Posted: September 30, 2011 Environmental

The city of Orange Beach, Alabama, and BP reached an agreement Wednesday over tourism revenues the city lost during and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The settlement came after a year of negotiating, with BP agreeing to pay $1.27

LSU study finds BP oil spill damaged fish at the genetic level
Posted: September 28, 2011 Environmental

A slew of upbeat public relations and advertising campaigns, together with a healthy dose of political spin, have helped rehabilitate the public’s perception of the Gulf Coast, left battered by the BP oil spill. But while tourists return to the

First phase of BP oil spill trial on target to start in February 2012
Posted: August 18, 2011 Environmental

The trial over BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf oil spill will begin as scheduled on February 27, 2012, and will be broken into three phases, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier said at a monthly status hearing Friday. More

Patients with metal artificial hips may have case against manufacturer
Posted: July 25, 2011 Pharmaceutical

About a thousand lawsuits have been filed against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics over its defective ASR hip replacement system, which caused patients pain, disability and additional surgeries. However, the company refuses to compensate patients for anything more than

New Zealanders cannot sue defective artificial hip maker
Posted: July 8, 2011 Pharmaceutical

More than 507 New Zealand patients received the defective DePuy Orthopaedics ASR hip replacement system, and 28 have had to have them removed since last year. Yet New Zealanders cannot sue the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that manufactured the defective

Employee benefits fund files suit against artificial hip maker
Posted: May 11, 2011 Pharmaceutical

A fund that manages health benefits for 25 towns in northern New Jersey has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that medical device manufacturer DePuy Orthopaedics continued to market its ASR hip replacement system in the United