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Posted: 5:47 PM Jan 25, 2012
Fla. Hotel Sues BP Over Oil Spill Claim
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A landmark Tampa Bay area hotel claims BP has failed to pay an oil-spill claim of more than $5 million.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A landmark Tampa Bay area hotel claims BP has failed to pay an oil-spill claim of more than $5 million.
The Don Cesar Resort Hotel on St. Pete Beach filed a lawsuit against BP Exploration and Production Tuesday in Houston, where the oil company is based.
The suit claims BP reneged on an agreement to pay the hotel $5.2 million for lost business after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April 2010. No oil reached the west-central Florida coast, but businesses suffered because of uncertainty over the spill and the false perception that beaches were fouled.
The suit said the hotel accepted BP's written offer of compensation last fall, but the company has so far failed to pay.
BP officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday.
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You are absoutley right about the condos and motel's ripping BP of we own a condo and everytime we tried to book it for that time they were alway's packed with no ROOMS AVAILABLE so how did they all loose so much money?
There is No way yall would have made 5.2 million dollars in a year at your hotel, even if the beaches were spotless. It was on the T. V. every day about the beaches were not heavyly oiled. That the oil was being cleaned up as it came ashore. Yall just want to make a killing.
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