Source: https://www.bna.com, July 20, 2017 By: Peter Hayes A teacher and students at a Southern California elementary school presented enough exposure and causation evidence to proceed with claims stemming from a toxic plume that migrated from an adjacent industrial site, the Southern District of California ruled ( Trujillo v. Ametek, Inc. , 2017 BL 246482, […]

Source: https://sf.curbed.com, July 19, 2017 By: Adam Brinklow Can it finally be fixed? Millennium Tower, the tony but troubled downtown high-rise that made international headlines last year when the secret got out that it’s slowly sinking and tilting, returned to its customary place in the news late Tuesday when NBC Bay Area revealed that the […]

Source: http://michiganradio.org, July 18, 2017 By: Kaye Lafond When I arrive at Bethany Hawkins’ home, the first thing she does is offer me a glass of her well water. “Our water’s always been really good,” she says. But Hawkins’ well could have an expiration date. It’s an estimated 675 feet from the edge of a […]

Source: http://www.myrecordjournal.com, July 18, 2017 By: Matthew Zabierek A Hall Avenue company is working with an engineering firm to control soil contamination around abandoned underground oil tanks. A 2009 environmental assessment conducted at Times Microwave Systems, a division of Amphenol Corporation, found excessive amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil on the property at 358 Hall […]

Source: https://www.ecowatch.com, July 18, 2017 By: Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rover Pipeline project in Ohio faces continuing problems, with more spills of drilling mud, ongoing questions about diesel fuel contamination, and orders issued last week by both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “The significant thing that is […]

Source: http://www.statesmanjournal.com, July 17, 2017 By: Tracy Loew A massive fuel spill on Highway 99W near Adair Village has caused traffic detours and delays for the past 10 days as the state clears contaminated soil and repairs the road. But Monday the situation worsened. Managers at the nearby E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area found out fuel contamination has spread […]

Source: http://roughnotes.com, July 5, 2017 By: Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU Judging from the rhetoric of the 2016 U.S. political campaign, one might have expected to see cranes and other heavy equipment popping up like weeds throughout the American landscape. At times, it seemed that there was only one thing most Americans and the major political […]

Read here about a 50,000 gallon oil spill in Texas that occurred after a contractor cut an underground pipeline.

Source: https://www.irmi.com, July 2017 By: Jeff Slivka, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC Over the past year, questions have increasingly emerged about construction specifications and the subsequent professional liability exposures they pose to contractors. First, it’s important to identify the two basic types of construction specifications: design and performance. Design Specifications The most common concerns prescriptive […]

Source: http://www.utilitydive.com, July 17, 2017 By: Robert Walton The Associated Press reports Tennessee health officials are investigating high levels of arsenic and lead found under a coal generating plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, but so far, they believe there is no threat to local drinking water. Groundwater under the Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis […]

Source: http://wvmetronews.com, July 13, 2017 By: Carrie Hodousek Charleston’s Yeager Airport has entered into a partial settlement with an engineering firm it sued following the 2015 hillside collapse at the end of the airport’s main runway. Yeager’s Resolution Committee announced Thursday it has settled with Triad Engineering, Inc. for $900,000. “It releases the officers and […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 12, 2017 By: Carly Miller, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP In a recent Missouri appellate decision, the court recognized and reaffirmed the Spearin Doctrine which provides that an owner impliedly warrants the adequacy of plans and specifications it provides to a contractor. In Penzel Construction v. Jackson R-2 School District et al., […]