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Carl, You may be right that the liability will have to fall exclusively on the MM&A.  I don't know the answer for certain.  There is no question about the fact that the runaway was ultimately the fault of the MM&A.  But if the oil never burned, there might have been no damage whatsoever to anything other than MM&A property.  And if the oil never burned, there may have been no loss of life.  I do not know what was expected regarding the oil flammability, but if the regulations expected no fire, then I would think that the liability will spread to the oil producer who shipped the oil.  I don't see any reason why the liabillity has to land on one specific element of the disaster cause.  And I would say that the fire was by far the biggest element of the disaster. In my opinion, this FRA probing of how the oil might have affected the disaster contemplates spreading the liabilty to more sources to provide greater funding to compensate the damage.
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