Judge Tosses Deepwater Horizon Case After Excluding Plaintiff’s Causation Expert

(November 2, 2023, 1:27 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana has dismissed a lawsuit brought against BP Exploration & Production Inc. and others by a man who alleged that he was injured by exposure to toxic chemicals from his work as an onshore cleanup worker following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  The judge excluded the plaintiff’s medical expert and ruled that without the expert the plaintiff could not establish general causation....