Mealey's (November 19, 2020, 10:35 AM EST) -- PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida on Nov. 4 awarded summary judgment to BP Exploration & Production Inc. and BP America Production Co. (collectively, BP) in actions brought by two groups of workers who engaged in the cleanup of oil from the Gulf Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 and who allegedly suffered personal injuries as a result of exposure to arsenic in the dispersant Corexit and particulate matter (PM), finding that the plaintiffs’ expert’s general causation opinion was unreliable under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc....