A federal judge adopted the recommendation of U.S. Magistrate Judge Hope T. Cannon in excluding the plaintiffs’ causation expert in seeking relief for diseases allegedly caused by toxic chemicals they were exposed to during BP’s cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Cannon’s recommendation was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District Court of Florida in Pensacola in October 2021. U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers issued an eight-page order Jan. 24 that granted summary judgment to BP Exploration and Production Inc. in Back-End Litigation Option (BELO) cases alleging later-manifested physical conditions, according to the order.