BP Plc (BP/) was barred by a U.S. judge from recovering hundreds of millions of dollars it claims to have overpaid some victims for economic losses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill . BP had sought to claw back millions of dollars after the court revised the method for calculating the damages. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans rejected that bid, quoting from language of a release people had to sign to receive payment under the settlement. BP told claimants, “If you sign this release, that’s it, it’s over for you. It doesn’t matter if the law changes or not, or if the interpretation of the settlement terms changes for better or worse,” Barbier said. “I don’t know how you get around it.” The company’s attempt to recover the money was “classic hair-splitting,” Barbier ruled. “The only conclusion is that this language bars BP from […]