Panel rules spill claims don’t need direct harm

Published March 3, 2014 9:42pm ET



NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals panel ruled Monday that businesses don’t have to prove that they were directly harmed by BP’s 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect settlement payments.

The ruling could clear the way for payments to resume from a settlement administrator after they were frozen.

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