BP Loses Bid for $750 Million Transocean Insurance for Oil Spill
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(Bloomberg) -- BP Plc isn’t covered under Transocean Ltd.’s insurance policies for the doomed Macondo well project, the Texas Supreme Court said, blocking the oil company’s access to $750 million to pay costs from the 2010 oil spill.
The decision conflicts with an earlier ruling by a U.S. appeals court that Transocean’s carriers couldn’t deny coverage for pollution-related liabilities for a disaster that has already cost the oil company more than $28 billion.
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