A federal judge overseeing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation has denied BP PLC’s request to halt payments in a $7.8 billion settlement pending an investigation into potential corruption in the claims administration process.
Meanwhile, two New Orleans law firms at the center of that probe have denied allegations that their attorneys were paying kickbacks to a former senior lawyer for the claims administrator.
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