Mass torts were at the heart of colossal legal settlements in 2015, particularly involving the federal government.
In October, BP PLC agreed to an unprecedented $20 billion deal with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve environmental violations that stemmed from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. One month earlier, the Justice Department inked a $900 million deferred-prosecution agreement with General Motors Co. to resolve criminal penalties associated with its ignition-switch recalls in 2014.
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