“My bet is that BP will finally go bankrupt from the tort liability and the environmental liability,” she said. “Hypothetically, a bluefin tuna farmer in the Mediterranean could end up with a claim against BP.”

— Florida State University environmental law professor Robin Kundis Craig, quoted in The New York Times on July 9, 2010. Craig, the Attorneys’ Title Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs in FSU’s College of Law, stated that if the oil hit the Gulf Stream and was carried by currents to East Coast states, Cuba and other Caribbean nations, and possibly even Britain, lawsuits could quickly mount to levels even BP could not handle.