As the Insurance Journal reported:
An "absurd" oil spill compensation payouts were launched by BP. For example, in a New Orleans court, BP gave an irrefutable evidences of businesses in industries far from the spill. The British oil and gas group had even to sold a substantial part of its business to pay reparations and fines for the disaster. Still if the court didn’t give a relief it could cost a lot of money for the company. BP plans to estimate the bill that would be $7.8 billion. They say it will be one of the biggest settlements of its kind in USA history. With payments flowing out BP found that the funds it had set aside could be insufficient. It added more up to $8.5 billion by the end of 2012. Such situation made the judge Barbier upheld some another methods.
Though BP is not agreed with such position.
As Insurance Journal reported:
The Federal regulators decided to pay more attention to the question of miner’s protection. The Mine Safety and Health Administration are the organizations that will lead the new recommendations for the miner’s safety. It includes improved technology, real-time gas monitors, the systems for communicating with people on the surface and fail-safe tracking devices.