August 16, 2017
Occidental Chemical Corp. asked a Louisiana federal judge on Tuesday to block a bid for class certification by landowners suing over a massive sinkhole that opened near the underground operations of Texas Brine Co., saying proposed class members are not bound by a common issue.
January 10, 2017
A Louisiana federal judge has denied four insurance companies' motions for dismissal in a suit arising from a massive sinkhole that opened near the underground operations of Texas Brine Co., saying Monday that the companies merely reheated arguments already rejected elsewhere.
November 16, 2016
A group of Louisiana landowners suing a brine company and insurers over a 400-foot-wide sinkhole that appeared near them asked a federal judge Tuesday for class certification, saying the question of whether the sinkhole caused them harm is a common issue suited for a class action.
August 24, 2016
Occidental Chemical Corp. told a federal court on Tuesday that Texas Brine Co. should have to take claims against three of Occidental's insurers over a massive drilling-related sinkhole to arbitration because Louisiana law demands it.
July 12, 2016
A Louisiana federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss Texas Brine Co.'s third-party claims against Reliance Petroleum Corp. stemming from an $80 million class action over a massive sinkhole, rejecting the oil company's attempts to distance itself from a well linked to the sinkhole.
March 28, 2016
Reliance Petroleum Corp. has urged a Louisiana federal judge to toss Texas Brine Co.'s third-party contract and negligence claims against it stemming from a $80 million class action over a massive sinkhole, saying Reliance was merely a non-operating interest in an oil well allegedly linked to the sinkhole's formation.
November 23, 2015
A Louisiana federal judge said Monday that the state's law should apply to one insurer's fight with Texas Brine over coverage for an $80 million class action related to damage from a sinkhole allegedly caused by the company's operations, but refused to apply Louisiana law to all insurers in the case.
November 06, 2015
Louisiana residents and business owners in an $80 million class action aimed at holding Texas Brine responsible for massive 2012 sinkhole urged a Louisiana federal court Friday to grant the company's motion for Louisiana law to apply in a third-party dispute over insurance coverage of the incident.
November 05, 2015
Miller Engineers & Associates Inc. told a Louisiana federal judge Wednesday it played no role in the development, construction or maintenance of a salt cavern operated by Texas Brine that turned into a massive sinkhole and spawned an $80 million class action, thus claims against it should be dismissed.
October 28, 2015
Insurers for Texas Brine urged a Louisiana federal court on Tuesday to deny the company's request to apply Louisiana law in a dispute over at least $80 million in coverage for a class action stemming from a massive sinkhole allegedly caused by the company's brine production facility, with some arguing that Texas law applies instead.