But the oil giant will appeal against the judgement from Judge Carl Barbier in the New Orleans US District Court. The company said that the ruling upheld payments to claimants who ‘have been paid money they didn’t deserve for losses they didn’t suffer’. Although the means of calculating payments to claimants has been changed, the judge will not let BP go back to reclaim money from recipients who were paid on the old system and would have received far less under the new system. Source: Financial Times
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