In the early days after the accident, the company took a conciliatory approach to resolve disputes with the gulf states and claims seekers, but it is now taking a more aggressive stance in court.
The plaintiffs, which include the federal government, several gulf states and private claims seekers, have argued in papers that BP "repeatedly lied to key decision makers about the flow rate of the well".
After taking a largely conciliatory approach as it tried to resolve the Gulf spill dispute, BP is now aggressively defending itself in the courts against the federal government, the Gulf states and private claims seekers.
Incompatible Web browsers frustrated claim-seekers after Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005.
If you're over 18 and able and available for work you can claim job seekers allowance (JSA) of £56.80 a week (£71.70 for singles over 25) to help you while you look for work.
The doctors claim: asylum seekers are examined while exhausted, dehydrated and filthy, their clothing "soiled with urine and faeces" because there are no toilets on the boats patients are "begging for treatment" asylum seekers must queue for up to three hours for medication.
"People with a learning disability find the demands placed upon them difficult while claiming Job Seekers Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance," he told the Independent.
The Senate inquiry also questioned representatives from Wilson Security and a former guard who claimed asylum seekers had been waterboarded and cable-tied to beds.
It has the lowest rate of employment and the highest proportion of people claiming Job Seekers' Allowance (6.9% to a UK average of 3.0%).
The report also says the government should offer a guaranteed six month minimum job paid at the minimum wage or above to anyone who has been unemployed and claiming job seekers allowance for more than 12 consecutive months.
In 2012, the Department for Work and Pensions brought in a tougher sanctions regime for those claiming Job Seekers Allowance and Employment Support Allowance, increasing the requirements needed to qualify for the benefits and the amount of time for which claimants can be penalised.
