It's been just over three years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but, for BP, the litigation may just be beginning.
In the past several weeks, the oil company has been hit with a flurry of more than 2,200 new lawsuits, most of them brought under the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which has a three-year statute of limitations that expired on April 20.
BP says it will attempt to have these new lawsuits consolidated into an ongoing trial based in New Orleans. The first phase of that trial ended earlier this month, and U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is currently considering how to divide blame for the spill among BP and its drilling partners, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Co.
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