Source: http://wfla.com, March 27, 2017 By: Melissa Marino Developer Drummond Company, Inc. has sent a letter to residents responding to a federal lawsuit alleging contamination in the Oakbridge and Grasslands communities. The two upscale subdivisions in Lakeland are named in a Federal lawsuit that claims developers in Polk County failed to notify thousands of new homeowners that they […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 21, 2017 By: Marilyn B. Fagelson and Rachel Snow Kindseth, Murtha Cullina LLP In a significant Connecticut Appellate Court victory for policyholders, Murtha Cullina LLP helped Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC prevail in its coverage case against more than 20 of its insurance carriers, who had issued policies from the 1950s to the 1980s. […]

Source: http://www.fosters.com, March 22, 2017 By: Judi Currie The City Council is moving forward with a plan to clean up the former Breton’s Cleaners site and demolish the building. The former dry cleaning business at 1 Winter St. has been closed for more than a decade. The property sits along the banks of the Salmon […]

Source: http://www.sightline.org, March 22, 2017 By: Eric de Place The polluter responsible is trying to wriggle off the hook. There’s a modern-day monster lurking under Tacoma’s industrial lands. Mixed in with the groundwater is a stew of pollution from a shuttered chemical plant: PCBs—toxic chemicals the EPA banned in 1979—and volatile organic chemicals so alkaline […]

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, […]