Judge Dismisses Some Claims From Cleanup Company’s Suit Against BP

Mealey's (January 7, 2016, 12:20 PM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California on Jan. 4 dismissed without prejudice an environmental cleanup company’s claims for breach of contract, accounts stated and open book account against BP America Inc. in a lawsuit accusing BP of failing to pay the company $1.7 million for cleanup activities it conducted in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010, finding that the plaintiff company failed to adequately state the claims (Advanced Cleanup Technologies Inc. v. BP America Inc., et al., No. 14-cv-09033, C.D. Calif.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1192)....