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Congressmen want to kill Death on the High Seas Act

Posted on Jun 07, 2010

A group of Congressmen wants to repeal a 1920 law that caps the amount of damages victims’ families can recover from the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion.

The Death on the High Seas Act limits liability for wrongful deaths over three miles offshore.

Rep. Charles Melancon said the law was “egregious” and Rep. Edward Markey said Congress was obligated to repeal it so that BP can fairly compensate the families of the 11 workers killed in the April 20 disaster.

Both representatives made their remarks Monday in a House Energy and Commerce Committee meeting. Natalie Roshto and Courtney Kemp, widows of two of the men killed, told the committee that their husbands had pride in their jobs even while being worried about warning signs on the rig in the weeks before the disaster.

Source: Associated Press

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