Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 27, 2023 By: Clark Mindock A U.S. appeals court on Monday handed 3M (MMM.N), Corteva Inc (CTVA.N) subsidiary E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co and other manufacturers of toxic so-called “forever chemicals” a big win in their fight against legal liability for the substances, rejecting a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed about […]

Source: https://www.wkms.org/, November 27, 2023 By: Ryan Van Velzer In the latest round of testing for forever chemicals, the Kentucky Division of Water discovered high rates in two communities. Now, municipal leaders are working with state officials to try and fix it. The city of Lewisport, Kentucky, is a seven-time winner of the Best Tasting […]

Source: https://www.wsws.org/, November 27, 2023 By: George Marlowe On Wednesday, a CSX train derailed in Rockcastle County in Kentucky. According to CSX, the 15-car derailment took place in the area between Mullins Station and Livingston, causing a chemical spill. Two cars carrying sulfur were part of the breach and one person was injured. Kentucky Governor […]

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/, November 21, 2023 By: Clark Mindock A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick. The Washington state court jury found the company […]

Source: https://www.wral.com/, November 20, 2023 By: Keely Arthur</span. New records obtained by WRAL 5 On Your Side reveal that North Carolina State University was aware of concerns regarding cancer-causing toxic chemicals inside Poe Hall over a month and a half before the university decided to evacuate the building. Read more.

Source: https://www.wcax.com/, November 21, 2023 By: Melissa Cooney Forever chemicals are festering inside some of Vermont’s schools. PCBs were a common component in building materials used prior to 1980. They have a lot of health risks, like cancer and other illnesses. To address the problem, the state launched a first-in-the-nation pilot program for PCBs. It’s […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, November 15, 2023 By: Amy L. Diviney, Plunkett Cooney PC A New Jersey Appellate Court affirmed the trial court’s judgment for the insurer-defendant, Great Northern Insurance Company (Great Northern), in a condominium water intrusion suit, finding that policy exclusions applied to bar the plaintiff’s first- and third-party claims for property damage. Pioneer AP […]

Source: https://www.kwch.com/, November 16, 2023 By: Branden Stitt and Matt Heilman A major construction project in Bel Aire continues to cause frustration with no clear end in sight, two years after it began. The incomplete Woodlawn roadwork raises numerous questions, chief among which are why the work isn’t done and what mistakes happened along the […]

Source: https://www.iamagazine.com/, October 30, 2023 By: Jude Sedliak Social inflation is wreaking havoc on the real estate professionals errors & omissions segment, leading to an increasing number of lawsuits and astronomical settlement amounts. While no real estate professional is safe thanks to a cooling housing market, property managers are seeing more than their fair share […]

Source: https://www.irmi.com/, October 30, 2023 By: Jeff Slivka Rectification coverage today has become a common insuring agreement or coverage part under a typical contractors professional liability policy (CPrL). Claims that trigger the rectification insuring agreement are on the rise with nearly every insurer offering the coverage in both frequency and severity. Known by some as […]

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/, November 10, 2023 By: Brett Chase When an American Airlines jetliner caught fire on an O’Hare Airport runway in October 2016, firefighters rushed to the scene. Within three minutes, they’d blanketed the flames with a suffocating foam, a product used at airports for half a century. Known as AFFF, it has been used […]

Source: Berkley Construction Professional A general contractor was hired to build a new home and its CAD operator designed the home with a structural flaw that caused the roof to collapse during construction resulting in significant property  damage and injury to workers on the site. The total amount paid to resolve this claim was  $375,000.