Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, April 21, 2019 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cited Legoland New York’s owner and contractors with 22 new violations this month in an effort to prevent continuing discharge of construction runoff from the $500 million project into local waterways, the Tribune Herald-Record reported. The total fines attached […]

Source: https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com, April 17, 2019 By: Joseph Brown Huntsville has authorized a lawsuit against three contractors in a bid to recoup repair costs for structural issues at the hub for the city’s trash. In January, city officials revealed that pavement for the driveway at the transfer station was cracking and crumbling, just 18 months after […]

Source: https://www.seacoastonline.com, April 18, 2019 By: Elizabeth Dinanc An architectural firm has been dropped from a lawsuit alleging faulty construction caused mold in apartments at the Wamesit Place public housing complex, while a related suit is ongoing at Superior Court, and the dispute is scheduled for mediation. The lawsuit was filed by Portsmouth attorney John […]

Source: https://www.sacbee.com, April 17, 2019 By: Wes Venteicher Water tests discovered legionella throughout a state prison in Stockton, showing the bacteria found in a dead inmate last month is more widespread than was previously known, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation email sent to staff Tuesday. The inmate, whom the department hasn’t […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, March 16, 2019 By: John B. King, Breazeale Sachse & Wilson LLP Due diligence conducted when acquiring assets in a commercial transaction, whether the assets include property with existing operating facilities or undeveloped property on which a facility is to be constructed, is absolutely essential to ensuring the property does not contain unknown […]

Source: https://axaxl.com/fast-fast-forward, April 1, 2019 By: Angela Guitar, Head of Global Excess Casualty Claims, AXA XL Every day, at least nine Americans die and hundreds are injured in distracted driving crashes. That’s why April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, an effort to raise awareness about distracted driving risks and encourage individuals to adopt safer driving. #JustDrive Auto […]

Source: https://www.presstelegram.com, April 16, 2019 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to use $5.2 million from the Aliso Canyon gas leak settlement with Southern California Gas Co. to clean up lead-based paint in homes around the now-shuttered Exide battery recycling plan in Vernon. Supervisor Hilda Solis said families in Bell, Maywood, Commerce, […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, March 29, 2019 By: Kim Slowey Skanska USA this week accused Salesforce Transit Center officials of ignoring the role design played in the shutdown of the $2.2 billion San Francisco facility in September, a month after it opened. Skanska subcontracted the center’s structural steelwork from general contractor Webcor Obayashi, and, in August, transit […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, March 20, 2019 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: After a March 14 meeting of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, Executive Director Mark Zabaneh told reporters that two cracked beams, which led to the ongoing shutdown of the $2.2 billion Salesforce Transit Center, were the result of a “failure of quality control in the […]

Source: https://www.newsday.com, April 15, 22019 By: Carl MacGowan The 126-acre Lawrence Aviation site, on Sheep Pasture Road, was declared a federal Superfund site in 2000 and closed in 2003. A Central Islip federal judge on Monday ordered the owners of a Superfund site in Port Jefferson Station to pay $48.1 million to remove hazardous chemicals and shrink a […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, April 12, 2019 By: John Corbett, Barnes & Thornburg LLP Liability insurance policies tend to fall into one of two categories based on the trigger of coverage: occurrence and claims-made policies. Generally speaking, under an occurrence policy, coverage is triggered if the underlying accident (i.e., the “occurrence”) for which a party seeks to […]

Source: https://poststar.com, April 15, 2019 By: Gwendolyn Craig The state has extended its public comment period for an $8.31 million proposed cleanup of a former recycling plant that contaminated the ground with PCBs and heavy metals. The state Superfund site at 24 county Route 26, also known as Church Street, was the former Katzman recycling […]