Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, February 3, 2017 By: Andrea Wells With “smart” building becoming the gold standard in today’s commercial construction world, builders, building owners, workers and insurers are dealing with new technologies and risks. These smart technologies — from high tech gadgets aimed at increasing building efficiencies to wearable devices aimed at improving safety — are […]

Source: http://www.lawtimesnews.com, March 20, 2017 By: Alex Robinson May impact plaintiffs in environmental damage claims Lawyers say a recent Ontario Superior Court decision finding an Ottawa dry cleaning company but not a principal of the business liable for a spill could have significant implications for compensation orders in prosecutions related to historic contamination. In Huang […]

Source: http://bklyner.com, March 27, 2017 Construction has been temporarily halted after workers found asbestos at a former incinerator site in Gravesend, where a new waste facility is slated despite vehement protests from local pols and residents. On March 1, workers excavating at the upcoming Southwest Brooklyn Marine Waste Transfer Station saw what tests later confirmed to be […]

Source: Anniston Star (AL), March 15, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The Environmental Protection Agency is planning a new round of excavation to get toxic chemicals out of Anniston’s soil. EPA officials last week proposed a plan to dig up soil at some sites along Snow Creek that remain contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs — […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 13, 2017 By: Michael H. Ginsberg , Jennifer Brinkman Flannery and Dominic I. Rupprecht, Jones Day Manufacturers with asbestos liabilities should pay attention to the March 7, 2017, ruling in R.T. Vanderbilt Company v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company by the Connecticut Appellate Court. While the court issued policyholder-friendly rulings on the […]

Source: http://norcalrecord.com, February 28, 2017 By: Charmaine Little Plaintiffs in a major construction lawsuit that ended with a San Diego law firm recovering nearly $5 million have decided to stay silent after the ruling was in their favor. The law firm, which represented Laurel Bay Community Association, won $4.7 million in the case that was […]

Source: http://www.eagletribune.com, March 9, 2017 By: Keith Eddings AG Healey seeks fines for alleged violations A prominent city contractor is rejecting allegations by Attorney General Maura Healey that his workers improperly handled asbestos hundreds of times while working on the reconstruction at Greater Lowell Technical School in 2014 and 2015. Healey alleges the contractor exposed […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, February 1, 2017 By: Barbara J. Jordan, P.E., S.I. and Donald B. Leach, Jr. In 2008, Ohio Northern University (ONU) entered into a contract with Charles Construction Services, Inc. (CCS) for the construction of The Inn, a new luxury hotel and conference center on ONU’s Campus, consisting of 57,000 square feet of space, […]

Source: Insurance Law360, March 7, 2017, By:  Wm. Gerald McElroy, Jr. Posted on: http://www.jdsupra.com Environmental impairment liability (EIL) policies currently available in the market provide very broad coverage. Thus, an EIL policy may provide coverage for an insured’s owned site clean-up costs, off-site clean-up costs, third party claims for bodily injury or property damage, and […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, March 9, 2017 By: Larry Griffin Contaminated soil vapor can enter a building through cracks or other openings in a building’s foundation Insurers have long wrestled with claims for soil and groundwater pollution under both pre-1986 commercial general liability (CGL) policies and modern environmental impairment liability policies, but recently a new trend in […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, March 8, 2017 By: Gavin Souter In a complex insurance coverage dispute over alleged asbestos-related claims arising out of industrial talc use and production, a Connecticut appeals court ruled on Monday that a policyholder who previously bought occurrence-based coverage should not be deemed uninsured for long-tail liability claims during years when only limited […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, March 6, 2017 By: Gloria Gonzalez President Donald Trump’s energy infrastructure push may create business opportunities for insurers, but they will still likely be wary of some of the projects due to their environmental risks. Robert Hartwig, clinical associate professor in the finance department and co-director of the Center for Risk and Uncertainty […]