$20 Million Award For Deaths Of 2 Oil Rig Workers Cut To $2 Million By Oklahoma Jury

Mealey's (February 10, 2020, 6:36 PM EST) -- MCALESTER, Okla. — An Oklahoma jury awarded a total of $20 million on Jan. 28 to the families of two oil rig workers who died in an oil rig explosion.  However the jury held the only remaining defendant at trial, a company that monitored the drilling fluid pressure, 10 percent liable for the accident, reducing the award to $1 million for each family (Charles Levi Brite, et al. v. National Oilwell Varco L.P., et al., No. CJ-18-90 and Sarah Ray, et al. v. National Oilwell Varco L.P., et al., No. CJ-18-91, Okla. Dist., Pittsburg Co.)....