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Senate bill would help victims of Gulf oil spill

Posted on Sep 30, 2010

A bill introduced this week by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) would expand the list of defendants to all corporations connected to the Gulf oil spill.

The Oil Spill Victims Redress Act would change the Oil Spill Act of 1990 (OPA) in two ways:

1) All oil spill victims, including families of those killed and injured, fishermen and hotel workers, may seek redress from any corporation connected to the incident and not just the so-called “responsible party(s).”

2) State claims cannot be automatically remanded to federal court by the defendants.

Whitehouse said the bill is designed to ensure fairness instead of the current attempts to evade responsibility by many of the companies connected to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Only BP is held accountable under current law, he said.

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