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BP fails in challenge to Gulf
oil spill compensation
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BP’s hopes of limiting the cost
of compensation for its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been dealt a
severe blow by the US Supreme Court, which has refused to hear the case over
what the UK oil company has described as unjustified payments.As a result of
this refusal, the cost of the settlement BP agreed in 2012 to compensate victims
of the spill is expected to rise above the $9.7bn the company has set aside in
its
accounts.
美最高法院拒審BP不合理賠償案
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英國石油(BP)減少2010年墨西哥灣漏油事件賠償費用的希望遭到美國最高法院(US
Supreme
Court)的沉重打擊，該法院拒絕審理這家英國企業所稱的不合理支付的案子。這一事態意味著，BP在2012年同意賠償漏油事件受害者的和解成本，預計將超過該公司在賬目上預留的97億美元。
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