BP Declines to Attend Mediation in Deepwater Horizon Wrongful Death Claim

HOUSTON - Counsel for BP declined to attend a mediation session in a wrongful death claim being pursued by the family of a Deepwater Horizon worker killed in the rig's April 20 explosion, saying it has tendered defense of claims by Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. workers to Transocean, which owned the rig.

The letter dated July 15 from attorney John T. Hickey of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago to Louis P. Selig of Selig ADR in Houston was in apparent response to a notice sent a day earlier alerting Hickey to a July 17 mediation session at the Caroline …