Professor Blaine LeCesne of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law recently published an excellent article in the Michigan State Law Review that is well worth the read.  In Crude Decisions: Re-examining Degrees of Negligence in the Context of the BP Oil Spill, 2012 Mich. St. L. Rev. 103 (2012), Professor LeCesne examines multiple potential causes of action arising out of the BP Oil Spill, and how the degree of negligence that led to the manmade disaster could cause the defendants’ liability to skyrocket.  Clicking on the title identified above will take you to the SSRN page for the article, where it can be downloaded.  The Introduction to the article reads: The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion was the worst man-made environmental disaster in United States history.  This singular event caused the death of eleven rig workers, damaged, perhaps irreversibly, the coastlines and ecosystems of five Gulf States, and imposed financialRead more