ExxonMobil News

Court Upholds Mechanic’s $726M Verdict Against ExxonMobil Over Benzene Exposure

A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has upheld a Philadelphia jury’s $725.5 million verdict against ExxonMobil in a case of cancer linked to exposure to benzene, an ingredient in gasoline. The court denied ExxonMobil’s post-trial motions and added more $90 …

ExxonMobil Loses Bid to Truck Millions of Gallons of Crude Oil Through Central California

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — ExxonMobil lost a court bid Wednesday to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California — a crucial part of its efforts to restart offshore oil wells that were shut in 2015 after …

Texas Supreme Ct.: Exxon Covered by Contractor’s Excess Insurers

Two excess insurers may be liable for the more than $20 million that ExxonMobil Corp. paid to settle lawsuits filed by a contractor’s employees who were badly burned while working at an Exxon refinery, the Texas Supreme Court ruled. The …

Texas Supreme Court Rules ExxonMobil Entitled to Info About Medical Payments

Medical providers who treated patients injured by a fire and explosion at an ExxonMobil chemical plant near Houston must disclose information about what they charged others for the same services, The Texas Supreme Court ruled. In an unsigned opinion released …

Federal Board Says 2015 California Refinery Blast Was Preventable

A 2015 explosion at a California oil refinery that injured four workers and threatened to release a toxic cloud was preventable, a federal safety panel reported Wednesday. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released a 73-page report that …

Suit Alleges Exxon Denied More Claims Than Paid in Tainted Fuel Case

ExxonMobil has paid more than $4.6 million to nearly 2,900 motorists impacted by the company’s production of more than 5 million gallons of tainted fuel distributed in the Baton Rouge area in March 2014. “ExxonMobil proactively honored all valid claims …

Exxon Mobil Wants to Bar Release of Files in Arkansas Pipeline Case

Exxon Mobil said it shouldn’t have to release any further information on a proposed but abandoned pipeline intended to run alongside the Pegasus pipeline that ruptured in 2013 in central Arkansas. The company is facing a class-action lawsuit by landowners …

Arkansas Realtors Struggle in Wake of Oil Leak at Mayflower

Efforts to buy and sell homes in , Ark., have been not been easy since an ExxonMobil Pegasus Pipeline ruptured in March and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in the town near Lake Conway, a local real estate broker …

Exxon: Report Blames Arkansas Pipeline Bust on Defects

An independent report blames manufacturing defects for the failure of an ExxonMobil pipeline that sent 150,000 gallons of crude oil into the small town of Mayflower, the company said Wednesday. The report, provided to Exxon and the Pipeline and Hazardous …

Storm Drain in Oil Leak Area to Be Replaced

Work is to begin to replace a storm drain in a Mayflower subdivision where an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on March 29 and spilled thousands of barrels of oil. Faulkner County Judge Allen Dodson told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that work to …