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That time a dog claimed $46,000 in damages from the BP oil spill

BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony. Now there's more evidence to back that up.

By Paul Barrett | Updated on October 30, 2015
In this April 21, 2010 file photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, fire boat response crews spray water on the burning BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. An April 20, 2010 explosion at the platform killed 11 men, and the subsequent leak released an estimated 172 million gallons of petroleum into the gulf. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)

(Bloomberg) — BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony. Now there’s more evidence to back that up.

BP has admitted fault in connection with the huge spill and is in the process of paying out tens of billions of dollars in government and individual claims, some civil and some criminal. At the same time, however, the British oil giant says that many of the demands made against its various claim funds have had scant, if any, connection to the catastrophe that killed 11 rig workers and spewed oil off the shore of Louisiana and other gulf states. 

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