Source: http://www.rmmagazine.com, November 1, 2016 By: Caroline McDonald The economic recession and a burgeoning shale oil and gas industry have taken their toll on the construction industry and led to the exodus of many experienced workers, according to the Chubb report Contractors Pollution Liability Coverage—An Integral Part of Every Project. While the construction industry is […]

Source: Best’s Review, November 2016 By: Lori Chordas Insurers are becoming big investors in public-private partnerships designed to fund the revitalization of America’s aging infrastructure. American infrastructure is in dire  straits. Public spending on aging assets—such as structurally deficient bridges, congested roads and deteriorating schools and waste treatment plants— has fallen to its lowest level […]

Source: http://kcur.org, October 26, 2016 By: Dan Margolies Up to 7,500 people who worked in the Jackson County Courthouse after a retrofit dispersed asbestos throughout the building will be eligible for medical monitoring under an $80 million settlement reached Tuesday night. The settlement was agreed to after a jury was chosen but before the class-action […]

Source: http://wspa.com, October 26, 2016 By: Diane Lee The mold problem at the Spartanburg County Courthouse is not over. That’s the concern of the Clerk of Court, who says employees are worried the remediation has not cleaned up all the mold. The remediation was supposed to have wrapped up in late September, but just last […]

Source: http://www.kpvi.com, October 26, 2016 The state’s department of environmental equality wants Bannock County to investigate increasing ground water contamination at the Fort Hall Mine Landfill. It’s a problem the county has been dealing with for about 25 years. But Idaho’s Department of Environmental Quality wants to tackle the rising contamination problem as early as […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, October 26, 2016 Ironshore’s Construction Industry Vertical, in conjunction with Ironshore Specialty Casualty, has expanded its coverage for the designers and contractors sector with a new combination policy covering contractors professional liability, contractors pollution liability and pollution mitigation in a single product suite. Ironshore’s new Designers and Contractors Professional & Pollution (DCP2) Liability […]

By: Jefferey S. Lejfer, CPCU, Chief Executive Officer, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC I’m about to celebrate my 42nd year in the insurance industry.  In that time I have seen quite a few ups and downs.  Anecdotally it seems that we are in a constant state of a “down” market with rate erosion and increased […]

Source: http://www.marinij.com, October 21, 2016 By:   Richard Halstead Forty loads of contaminated soil must be trucked out of San Anselmo because the earth beneath a commercial property along the Ross border contains toxic chemicals, state authorities said. The groundwater also will have to be treated at the .32-acre parcel at 4 and 8 Bolinas Ave. […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 22, 2016 By: Walter Wright and Rachel Hildebrand, Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC An Ohio federal district court addressed whether a landfill operator’s insurer was obligated under a claims-based Environmental Impairment Liability (“EIL”) policy to defend and indemnify against claims concerning odors emanating from the landfill. See Tunnell Hill Reclamation, […]

Source: http://thedailynews.cc, October 20, 2016 By: Elisabeth Waldon The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is working to fix contamination from leaking storage tanks underground at a former gas station. The property at 15350 W. Howard City-Edmore Road (M-46) sits on two long neglected acres in Winfield Township, better known as Amble. The property went into […]

Source: http://www.fox4news.com, October 20, 2016 By: Lori Brown,Vicki Chen A FOX 4 Investigation has uncovered that Dallas ISD’s newest school is built on contaminated land. The contamination at Jose “Joe” May Elementary School in Northwest Dallas is serious enough that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has stepped in to oversee cleanup of the […]

Source: http://www.stltoday.com, October 20, 2016 By: Bryce Gray A letter from Missouri Department of Natural Resource officials has outlined numerous sources of groundwater contamination at Bridgeton Landfill and has requested that the site’s operator, Republic Services, pursue “corrective measures” to mitigate the impact of an underground fire smoldering within the landfill, while continuing environmental monitoring efforts. Based […]