BP was appealing lower court rulings which compensated people and companies not actually injured in the Deepwater Horizen oil spill. The company had agreed to create a fund to compensate those impacted by the disaster in a bid to avoid litigation costs and speed up claims. However, the company has challenged the wider view taken by the administrator running the claims process with more than half a billion dollars claimed by those whose losses are not related to the disaster.
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