BP Plc and lawyers suing the company won preliminary approval of their proposed settlement of claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The proposed settlement is “fair, reasonable, adequate, entered in good faith, free of collusion and within the range of possible judicial approval,” U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who has been overseeing the litigation, said in granting preliminary approval of the agreement Wednesday.
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