Florida Hotel Sues BP Over Oil Spill Claim
From The Miami Herald
Florida Hotel Sues BP Over Oil Spill Claim
A landmark Tampa Bay-area hotel claims BP has failed to pay an oil-spill claim of more than $5 million.
The Don Cesar Resort Hotel on St. Pete Beach filed a lawsuit against BP Exploration and Production January 24 in Houston, where the oil company is based.
The suit claims BP reneged on an agreement to pay the hotel $5.2 million for lost business after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April 2010. No oil reached the west-central Florida coast, but businesses suffered because of uncertainty over the spill and the false perception that beaches were fouled. Click here for the full story.
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