Editor's Note: This article has been contributed by Bryan Campbell, a member of the subrogation and recovery department at Cozen O'Connor.
Yearly, many oil pipelines fail, spill crude oil, and cause significant health and environmental damage all across the continental United States, leading to hefty financial implications for the oil companies, landowners, government, and insurers.
Case in point: In September 2012, Enbridge Energy paid a $3.7 million penalty for a 2010 rupture of a pipeline that polluted the Kalamazoo River with thousands of gallons of crude oil. In October, Montana landowners filed suit claiming a major petroleum distributor overlooked warnings before a pipeline break dumped roughly 1,500 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River.
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