Showdown looms as BHP faces 3rd class action over Brazil mine disaster

Class Actions 2018-09-25 10:59 pm By Christine Caulfield | Melbourne

BHP Billiton has been hit with a third class action in Australia over the 2015 dam failure at its Samarco mine in Brazil, and the lead applicant in the latest case — one of the biggest pension funds in the US — has a lot at stake.