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BP frets over mounting Gulf compensation costs

Oil giant BP is getting increasingly concerned at the growing cost of compensation claims linked to the Deepwater Horizon disaster - some of which it says are fictitious.

Oil giant BP is getting increasingly concerned at the growing cost of compensation linked to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. It says it is being forced to pay out claims for what it calls "fictitious and inflated losses", and wants Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue with President Obama at the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland next month. Our Business Editor Robert Peston tells us why BP is so worried, and we speak to a Louisiana lawyer who is pursuing claims against the company.

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Thu 16 May 2013 16:32GMT

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  • Thu 16 May 2013 16:32GMT