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BP challenges 'inflated' payouts

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Oil giant BP is fighting back over millions of dollars of "fictitious and inflated" compensation claims for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster which it warns threaten its future.

A panel of United States appeal court judges began hearing the group's appeal over how its 7.8 billion US dollars (£5.2 billion) claims settlement is being handled - which it says has sparked a "feeding frenzy" and is allowing businesses from the Gulf coast to claim for "non-existent, artificially calculated losses".
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