BP Shareholder Says Company Has a 'History of Ignoring Safety'

NEW ORLEANS - A BP PLC shareholder has filed a derivative action against the company's directors and officers alleging that they ignored safety problems that will cost the company tens of billions of dollars because of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Goldman v. Hayward, et al., No. 2:10-cv-01470-KDE-ALC (E.D. La.).

The May 13 suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frances O. Goldman also names Deepwater Horizon's owners, Transocean Ltd. and its related entities, and the firms that manufactured the blowout preventer and cement capping, Cameron International Corp. and Halliburton Energy Services Inc.

Goldman …