Source: http://www.crainsdetroit.com, September 19, 2016 By: Saulius Mikalonis “Because lead-based paint is the most important source of lead exposure for young children, the first essential element of primary prevention is implementation of strategies to control lead paint-contaminated house dust and soil and poorly maintained lead paint in housing.” — Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children, […]

Source: http://propertycasualtyfocus.com, September 216, 2016 By: Daniel G. Enriquez and Robert D. Helfand As this blog has reported, a line of cases deciding coverage disputes over faulty workmanship runs against (or, at least, around) a basic rule for interpreting insurance policies.  Under that rule, the scope of coverage is determined by a policy’s insuring clause, which […]

Source: http://news.wabe.org, September 21, 2016 By: Molly Samuel In Alabama, the clean-up near the Cahaba River south of Birmingham continues, following the pipeline leak that lead to Atlanta’s gas shortage. The effects on the environmentally-sensitive area could have been worse, said David Butler, riverkeeper of the Cahaba Riverkeeper organization. Most of the hundreds of thousands […]

Source: http://www.renewalredevelopment.com, August 2016 By: Kasey Jones As urban revitalization proceeds at a steady pace and construction prices continue to escalate in cities where vacant parcels are all but nonexistent, many property owners and developers are finding that substantial profits can be made through major renovations of existing buildings. Renovation starts in some cities are […]

Source: http://www.philly.com, September 20, 2016 By: Jan Hefler The New Jersey Supreme Court has denied an appeal filed to force two government agencies to contribute to a medical-monitoring fund for the nearly 100 children who were exposed to toxic mercury vapors at their day-care center, Kiddie Kollege, more than a decade ago. The court last […]

Source: http://www.browndailyherald.com, September 20, 2016 By: Kyle Borowski Oxygenating chemical MTBE, discovered in water, makes supply undrinkable The state of Rhode Island filed suit against 34 oil-producing companies Sept. 6, arguing that the entities contributed to extensive contamination of the chemical MTBE — methyl tertiary butyl ether — in groundwater across the state. MTBE is […]

Source: http://www.seattletimes.com, September 19, 2016 By: JoNel Aleccia Bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease have been detected in University of Washington Medical Center devices used to heat and cool patients during heart surgery, the same type of machines linked to different types of deadly outbreaks in other hospitals. Three so-called heater-cooler units, devices used during surgery […]

Source: http://www.kansas.com, September 13,2 016 By: Gabriella Dunn Helen and Bob Harrison have lived in their west Wichita home for 36 years and are now finding out that they’ve been drinking, cooking, bathing and washing their clothes in water contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals. They don’t know how long their well water has been contaminated […]

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com, August 12, 2016 By: David Hodges Robert Wagner wishes someone had told him that his home was likely riddled with defects and that his walls were rotting away from the inside. And told him that the builder, Beazer Homes, wasn’t going to do the work unless he told them to. “By the time […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 9, 2016 By: Heidi Hudson Raschke, Carlton Fields A recent article in the Sports section of The Miami Herald read “Shooting coach helps Winslow.” Perhaps, but it probably didn’t help the coach much. The admonition to “eat every carrot and pea on your plate” undoubtedly elicits laughs from the children to whom […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, September 13, 2016 by: Heidi Hudson Raschke, Carlton Fields A recent article in the Sports section of The Miami Herald read “Shooting coach helps Winslow.” Perhaps, but it probably didn’t help the coach much. The admonition to “eat every carrot and pea on your plate” undoubtedly elicits laughs from the children to whom […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, September 12, 2016 By: Jonathan D. Salant Just months after adding a Vineland location to the list of federal Superfund sites, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an $8.7 million plan to clean up contaminated soil at 57 nearby homes. The plan announced Monday called for removing about 21,000 cubic yards of soil contaminated by arsenic and lead from the now-defunct […]