US senators push to raise spill liability cap

摘要

Washington-Three US senators said May 3 they would introduce legislation to increase the current $75 million cap on damages from an oil spill to $10 billion. Senators Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, two New Jersey Democrats, and Florida Democrat Bill Nelson proposed the bill in response to reports that BP's liability from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill might not exceed $75 million, despite the fact that property damage, wage loss and other claims are likely to be exponentially higher than that.