DICKINSON — Two seafood dealers are among at least 13 plaintiffs in a $5 million class-action lawsuit that claims businesses were devastated by an oil spill from a Gulf drilling rig explosion.
The April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 workers and resulted in an estimated 200,000 gallons of oil spilling daily from an undersea well 41 miles from the Louisiana coast.
The lawsuit blames BP, Halliburton, Cameron Industries and rig owner Transocean for the blowout. Halliburton, however, claimed its work was consistent with normal oil field practices.
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