Source: https://www.baltimoresun.com, February 19, 2019 By: Scott Dance Baltimore is asking a federal judge to force agriculture chemical company Monsanto to pay for cleanup of environmental toxins known as PCBs, following more than a dozen mostly West Coast cities and states that have filed similar lawsuits in recent years. The lawsuit announced Tuesday doesn’t specify […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com, Environmental Insider, January 2019 By: Russ Nassof, Esq., RiskNomics LLC Both the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shared new requirements for water management programs (WMPs) as a preventive response to the rising issue of Legionnaires’ disease, a serious lung infection caused […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com, Environmental Insider, January 2019 By: Jillian Walsh With the potential for a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure bill on the horizon, the demand for asphalt paving projects is expected to increase as the nation’s infrastructure undergoes upgrades, improvements and new construction. Often an increase in workload results in increased potential for accidents and associated environmental […]

Source: https://www.irmi.com, September 2015 By: Kent Holland Where a natural gas pipe exploded due to construction workers disturbing it while working on an excavation project, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the resulting bodily injury and property damage was caused by a “pollution condition,” i.e., the escape of the natural gas, and that the contractor’s […]

Source https://www.irmi.com, July 2014 By: Kent Holland A Wisconsin appeals court found that an insurer’s duty to defend under a contractors pollution liability (CPL) policy was not triggered by an explosion caused when a contractor hit a natural gas line. The court explained that the CPL policy only covered property damage and personal injury due […]

Source: https://www.delawareonline.com, February 13, 2019 By: Maddy Lauria Mountaire Farms has been ordered to clean up to 1 million gallons of partially treated wastewater that spilled into the ground at its chicken plant near Millsboro, state officials said on Wednesday. The spill was discovered about 5 a.m. on Wednesday and was caused “by mechanical failure of a […]

Source: http://www.alaskastar.com, February 12, 2019 By: Matt Tunseth Engineers had serious questions about whether Gruening Middle School could withstand a powerful earthquake from the time the school was built, according to a collection of news stories written about the school’s troubled construction in the early 1980s. “A major earthquake would produce significant damage and a […]

Source: https://www.marylandmatters.org, February 11, 2019 By: Josh Kurtz A bipartisan group of Maryland lawmakers wants Exelon Generation Co., LLC held financially responsible for some of the cleanup costs associated with pollution spilling over the Conowingo Dam, which the energy giant owns. Del. Jay A. Jacobs (R-Upper Shore) has introduced a non-binding resolution stating the view of the […]

Source: https://www.nydailynews.com, February 11, 2019 By: Clayton Guse The defunct Brooklyn gas station thought to be the source of last week’s noxious smell on the L train has contaminated local groundwater for decades. Over the 17 years between 1989 and 2006, the owners of the station at 2 Bushwick Ave., reported five chemical spills to […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, February 11, 2019 Specialist insurer Beazley has launched site lender environmental asset protection (SLEAP) cover to protect banks and other lenders from pollution risks that could seriously impair the value of property used as collateral for commercial loans. In the event of both a loan default and the discovery of environmental contamination on […]

Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 11, 2019 By: Walter J. Adams, Jr. Risk is inherent with any commercial building project. From design and specification through construction, there are many moving parts capable of creating… Risk is inherent with any commercial building project. From design and specification through construction, there are many moving parts capable of creating any […]

Source: https://www.fireengineering.com, February 6, 2019 A gas explosion in a San Francisco neighborhood shot flames into the air for hours Wednesday and burned five buildings, sending panicked residents and workers fleeing into the streets. It took utility crews more than two hours to put out the fire after private construction workers cut a natural gas […]