re: David West not eligible for $1.4M BP settlement

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he 5th Circuit agreed with BP that West couldn’t show that the $1.4 million less he was paid as salary in 2010, compared with 2009, was caused by the April 20, 2010, sinking of the oil rig and ensuing oil spill.

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“He received every penny specified in that contract both before and after the spill,” the ruling said. The salary reduction was built into a front-loaded contract (received the full $45 million called for in the five-year contact) signed long before the accident, the ruling said.

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