BP settles last case related to deadly blast

? BP PLC on Thursday settled the last remaining death-related lawsuit from the 2005 Texas City refinery blast that killed 15, wounded more than 170 and brought vast criticism on the oil company for lax safety measures at the facility.

Just as jury selection was beginning in what would have been the first civil case from the explosion to go to trial, a woman whose parents had been killed in the blast – and who had expressed eagerness to go to court – settled.

Eva Rowe, 22, walked away with an undisclosed amount, but the settlement also called for London-based BP to continue to release documents related to the case and to donate millions to schools and medical facilities, including one where victims were treated after the March 2005 explosion.

Her parents, 48-year-old James Rowe and his wife, Linda Rowe, 47, of Hornbeck, La., were two of the 15 killed.