Offshore vessel owner Y&S Marine and an affiliate have re-filed litigation in New Orleans to keep alive claims over the Deepwater Horizon oilspill.

The filing by the Louisiana company, which controls a fleet of crewboats, is among several plaintiffs ordered by US District Judge Carl Barbier to file individual lawsuits if they want to continue to their claims after he threw out a master complaint shared by a raft of litigants.

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