BP is seeking to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 spill in a move opposing lawyers warn could open the floodgates to challenging hundreds of thousands of individual . BP, which is struggling to hold down the estimated $9.2 billion cost of its settlement of most private damage claims, is set to argue today before the U.S. Court of Appeals in that the administrator of its settlement program misunderstood the deal. As a result, a handful of nonprofit agencies that didn’t suffer any losses from the spill were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, BP contends. Victims’ lawyers accuse BP of using the nonprofits as a test for winning appeals court oversight of individual damage awards and rewriting the settlement. Thousands of people and businesses harmed by the worst offshore spill in U.S. history sued BP and its . BP previously set aside $43 billion to cover all […]