Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, August 31, 2026 By: Matthew Sellers A wave of mold-related lawsuits against major US home builders is pushing legal reserves higher and adding fresh strain to an already hard liability market for residential construction, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. The lawsuits allege that construction shortcuts, including undersized HVAC systems, poorly sealed […]

Source: https://flaglerlive.com/, August 28, 2026 In 2009, Bunnell’s city government moved out of its rustic, coquina-framed City Hall on South Pine Street because it was leaking torrents. After five years of squatting at the Government Services Building, Bunnell spent about $1 million to buy and renovate the former Heritage charter school building complex at 201 West Moody […]

Source: https://www.irmi.com/, June 12, 2026 By: Jeff Slivka, with contribution from Daniela Compton Catastrophic design or engineering errors have always been and will always be an inherent risk in the construction industry. Disasters such as the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University in 2018, the Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans in 2019, […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, August 31, 2026 By: Regielyn Santiago A New York appeals court ruled that gradual contamination at 26 mining sites was not covered, upholding the insurers’ pollution exclusion. On August 27, 2026, the Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed summary judgment for The North River Insurance Company and United States Fire Insurance Company in two orders […]

Source: https://www.wral.com/, August 25, 2026 By: Liz McLaughlin The artificial intelligence race is creating demand for more than data centers and electricity. It is also creating a new market for the chemicals needed to keep increasingly powerful computer chips from overheating. Some of those cooling technologies rely on PFAS, a broad class of fluorinated compounds […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, August 31, 2026 By: Matthew Sellers A wave of mold-related lawsuits against major US home builders is pushing legal reserves higher and adding fresh strain to an already hard liability market for residential construction, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. The lawsuits allege that construction shortcuts, including undersized HVAC systems, poorly sealed […]

Source: https://www.wvnews.com/, August 27, 2026 The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 will begin removing hazardous materials from the former Belchers Cleaners site in Oceana after an inspection found leaking containers and other potential environmental hazards. Read more.

Source: https://www.bhspecialty.com/ By: Danny Sonon & Regina Rubino As data center construction accelerates across the U.S., exposures are stacking up—and claims are starting to follow. A  single campus can require two gigawatts of power, enough for 1.5 million homes, on a grid already under  strain. Add  water scarcity and community opposition, and the exposures touch […]

Source: https://www.berkleysp.com/ Most manufacturers think about liability in terms of the events that are easiest to visualize: bodily injury, property  damage, and product recalls. Those exposures are important, but they are not the whole story. Today, many disputes arise from something far less visible: financial loss suffered by a customer after a product, service,  or […]

Source: https://berkleycp.com/, August 26, 2026 By: Joseph Shields, P.E. The foundations were poured long before the problem came to light. A surveyor had incorrectly marked a property line. As a result, part of the structure was built on neighboring land. What began as a straightforward surveying error escalated into a major loss involving demolition work, […]

Source: https://www.mynewmarkets.com/, August 23, 2026 By: John Heft Uncertainty in the economy and environmental regulation, the continuing impact of social inflation, and the construction industry’s ongoing business challenges are complicating exposures for project owners, developers, and contractors. Amid these trends, the environmental and construction professional liability insurance market remains dynamic. Navigating that market becomes easier […]

Source: https://www.arkansasonline.com/, August 24, 2026 By: Annette Beard The Pea Ridge School District is scrambling to clean up a classroom after lead was discovered over the summer. Summer maintenance on the agriculture shop’s welding room at Pea Ridge High School revealed lead dust in the welding exhaust system, district Superintendent Keith Martin told School Board […]