No reasonable judgment would force a company to pay for damages it didn’t cause, BP said as it takes its Deepwater Horizon claims case to the Supreme Court . The British energy company said it would ask the Supreme Court to review a decision from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court, which ruled a “compromise” deal means the company may have to write checks to businesses for claims BP says have nothing to do with the 2010 oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. “No company would agree to pay for losses that it did not cause, and BP certainly did not when it entered into this settlement,” the company said in a Wednesday statement . “BP will continue to fight to return the settlement to its original, explicit, and lawful purpose — the compensation of claimants who suffered actual losses due to the spill.” If […]

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