Source: https://www.latimes.com, December 12, 2018 By: Alene Tchekmedyian Lockheed Martin has agreed to expand its cleanup efforts of contaminated groundwater in the San Fernando Basin as part of a settlement agreement reached with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Under the agreement, Lockheed Martin will treat and transfer 1.5 billion gallons of drinking […]

Source: https://connectingvets.radio.com, December 12, 201 Veterans and family members who lived and worked aboard the former Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, NH,. are urging the government to collect data about their health and disease rates and how that may tie into chemicals they were exposed to on the military installation. During a listening session, […]

Source: https://www.kingstonist.com, December 12, 2018 By: Michelle Allan When Jennifer Kehoe brought her son home sick from school, she initially thought he was feigning illness. She’d been called to pick him up from Molly Brant Elementary six of the past 12 school days, but his nausea, headache, and sore throat seemed to go away within […]

By: Tim Farrell, RT New Day While doing research documenting and comparing the carriers’ Rectification coverage, I was struck by the different names this coverage is given by the carriers. And while ‘Rectification’ is the most prominent name, I found ‘Mitigation Costs,’ ‘Recall Expense,’ ‘First Party Protection,’ ‘Redress Coverage,’ ‘First Party Indemnity’ – and in one […]

Source: https://www.wltx.com, December 11, 2018 By: Nic Jones Some in a Columbia community are thinking about moving after a gas odor at a nearby gas station has been impacting people for weeks. It’s been a pain for this community since before Thanksgiving. Back on November 19th, Play Pals Day Care off of Broad River Road […]

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com, December 10, 2018 By: Kimberly Fornek The Illinois Attorney General and the DuPage County State’s Attorney offices have reached a settlement of their lawsuit against Speedway LLC, that requires the company pay a $75,000 penalty. The state and county sued Speedway in 2017 after gasoline leaking from underground storage tanks at a Speedway […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A cooling tower at Disneyland was the likely source for all 22 cases in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak last year near the theme park, an Orange County health official testified Tuesday. Most of those who fell ill visited the park in the fall of 2017. […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, December 4, 2018 By: Maria C. Salvemini, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox In an unpublished opinion, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey held that the Government was not liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) for remediation […]

Source: https://www.northjersey.com, December 4, 2018 By: Meghan Grant Aiming to identify the companies behind the chemical contamination of its water supply, Ridgewood Water has retained a California-based law firm to potentially sue over the expensive costs of meeting new state and federal water quality standards. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a group of […]

Source: https://www.enr.com, October 24, 2018 By: Scott Van Voorhis The engineering giant was stuck with liability for an accident triggered by others The record of the fateful hours before the horrific June 2009 explosion at Conagra Brand’s now-defunct Slim Jim plant in North Carolina reveals an excruciating, slow-motion series of errors. Brought in to commission […]

Source: http://www.seacoastonline.com, November 23, 2018 By: Max Sullivan Three more lawsuits have been filed against a Hampton Beach hotel identified by state officials as a likely source of a Legionnaire’s disease outbreak this summer. The suits were filed this past Tuesday in Rockingham Superior Court by three plaintiffs from Massachusetts, bringing the total number of […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, November 30, 2018 By: Tiffany Kary Creating a massive lawsuit over cancer-linked chemicals found in around a third of Americans’ drinking water got a skeptical reception in federal court Thursday. A panel of seven judges in Manhattan repeatedly asked whether cases across the U.S. should be consolidated, given that they may have dealt […]