Source: Insurance Insider, June 25, 2020 By: Anna Sagar The loss from a March explosion at a South Korean petrochemical plant has expanded from about $200mn to around $600mn after BI claims inflated the original tally, Insurance Insider understands.   Marsh is the broker of Lotte Chemical’s downstream energy property policy, with the loss expected to hit carriers […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 24, 2020 By: Ludwig Burger and Tina Bellon Bayer AG, after more than a year of talks, agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weedkiller Roundup caused cancer, resolving litigation that has pummeled the company’s share price. The German drugs […]

Source: https://pittsburgh.legalexaminer.com/, June 20, 2020 According to a new firefighting foam lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, a Pennsylvania woman was exposed to toxic chemicals in drinking water originating from firefighting foams used nearby. Companies like 3M, Tyco Fire Products, DuPont, and Chemguard manufactured aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF) for decades, […]

Source: https://science.thewire.in/, June 22, 2020 Salyersville, Kentucky: In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of breath. Regulators responding to the leak couldn’t find an owner to fix […]

Source: https://www.wane.com/, June 20, 2020 By: Britt Salay The town of Andrews has filed another lawsuit against Raytheon, formally known as United Technologies, after chemical levels found to be “very high” in one of the town’s water wells. On Friday, Huntington County advised Andrews residents to avoid using their water for any purpose after water test […]

Source: https://www.freep.com/, June 21, 2020 By: Keith Matheny Clark’s Marsh, a natural area near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda so tainted with potentially harmful nonstick chemicals that almost every living creature tested there shows excessive levels of them, will get more attention from the U.S. Air Force. But area residents, frustrated by years of […]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, June 18, 2020 Commercial insurers are scrutinizing building managers’ efforts to avoid outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease as they re-open movie theaters, gyms, schools and offices that had been closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, industry sources told Reuters. Legionnaires’ disease is a severe, sometimes-lethal form of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria […]

Source: https://www.aviationpros.com/, June 18, 2020 By: Garret Ellison More than 30,000 gallons of toxic fluorochemical foam has been collected from municipal fire departments and commercial airports in Michigan in an effort that state officials believe is the nation’s largest collection and disposal program of its type. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy […]

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), June 18, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Shortly after LeAnne Renteria and her husband moved to South St. Paul in 2003, they got their first whiff of what gave the city its blue-collar reputation and “Cow Town” moniker: the stockyards. But when the yards closed in April 2008, a stench […]

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/, June 19, 2020 By: Lisa Sorg Chemours could be fined after state environmental regulators cited the company for dumping soil and tree roots likely contaminated with perfluorinated compounds into an unlined landfill. The NC Department of Environmental Quality found that Chemours failed to test the material for PFAS contamination before transporting multiple loads of […]

Source: https://stockhouse.com/, June 16, 2020 The Miller Law Firm has recovered an additional $8,300,000 against major Bay Area builder Signature Homes for the Candlestick Cove Homeowners’ Association. This brings The Miller Law Firm’s total recovery for three Candlestick neighborhood associations with construction defects in excess of $16 Million. Read more.

Source: https://www.gmtoday.com/, June 18, 2020 The village this week shared an update on the former Clark Station site that has stood vacant at the corner of Washington Street and 11th Avenue since the middle of 2016. Cleanup has officially started at the site and soil excavation has been completed. The building will soon be demolished, […]