Spiegel said that although steering committees are helpful, that is simply not the structure chosen for this trial.

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This study had neither a steering committee, as a group of experts who regularly convened to discuss the trial and its data, nor a data safety monitoring board (DSMB), which carefully watches study information to make sure patients are not harmed.

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The Justice Department and the Plaintiffs Steering Committee, the lead private attorneys in the case, have vowed to prove at trial that BP was grossly negligent and that it engaged in willful misconduct in causing the spill.

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