Source: http://www.northjersey.com, October 13, 2014 By: Hasime Kukaj Roche officials said Wednesday that they are satisfied with the progress of soil and groundwater remediation at its Clifton/Nutley campus, which it plans to vacate and sell soon. A small audience turned out for a public meeting at the Renaissance Meadowlands Hotel Rutherford. In addition to the […]

Source: http://www.couriernews.com, August 13, 2011 By: Lindsey Williams Filing claims architecture firm caused delay in construction at RHS The construction of Russellville High School’s Center for the Performing Arts has sparked a lawsuit, court documents show. EWI Inc., the construction manager for the performing arts center project, filed a civil suit Aug. 5 in Pope […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 8, 2014 By: Jacki L. Anderson, Proskauer Rose LLP The rule courts generally employ to interpret undefined words in insurance policies — essentially, to look to the words’ plain or ordinary meaning — sounds simple.  However, many times, there is more than one meaning of such words, lending to more than one […]

Source: http://www.courthousenews.com, October 8, 2014 By: Rose Bouboushian Insurers cannot hold up payment of about $17.4 million for New Jersey pollution rooted in the production of World War II equipment, a federal judge ruled. Cornell-Dubilier Electronics started using polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to insulate the electrical capacitors it manufactured in 1939. After submerging its products into […]

Source: The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), October 9, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Electronics manufacturer AVX Corp. will pay $1.2 million to the owners of 42 properties in Myrtle Beach where groundwater contaminated by the toxic degreaser trichloroethylene was discovered, according to a preliminary settlement approved this week by a circuit court judge. AVX used […]

Source: http://www.timesleader.com, October 7, 2014 By: James O’Malley A firm bearing the name of a former local engineer didn’t build the waste water treatment system it promised, a lawsuit alleges, and cleaning up the mess will seriously cost one community. Salem Township filed the two-count suit Monday in Luzerne County Court against Michael J. Pasonick, […]

Source: Reuters, October 7, 2014 Posted on: http://news.yahoo.com Pennsylvania environmental regulators on Tuesday sought a record $4.5 million penalty from EQT Corp, a natural gas producer, for damage caused by the release of fracking fluids from a gas drilling site in the Marcellus region. The production of shale gas using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technology […]

Source: Staten Island Advance (NY), October 4, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com Asbestos problems at the controversial Mount Manresa project have led to $67,400 in city violations, and GOP Borough President James Oddo wants the city Department of Investigation to step in. Gaspare Santoro, the engineer who said that the six buildings on the site scheduled […]

Source: Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, NH), October 4, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com As lawyers and insurance companies work to determine responsibility for the Aug. 13 sewer backup that damaged two downtown restaurants, a few paragraphs in a 40-page development agreement could shield the city from liability. The city and First Street at Garrison LLC signed […]

Source: BNamericas, October 3, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com Mexico City’s faulty No. 12 metro line was designed and built incorrectly, according to an investigation into the events that led to the line’s closure in March. “The line was put into operation with the wrong trains on the wrong rails along the wrong route,” said Slobodan […]

Source: http://www.record-eagle.com, October 6, 2014 By: Brian McGillivary The contractor hired to remove the Brown Bridge Dam will pay $300,000 to resolve environmental claims from homeowners and help restore the Boardman River from damage caused when the dam breached. Molon Excavating Inc. will pay $120,000 to downstream property owners to cover the cost of removing […]

Source: http://citizensvoice.com, October 7, 2014 By: Bob Kalinowski Salem Township on Monday filed a lawsuit against former township engineer Michael Pasonick claiming a sewer project his firm designed is deeply flawed and will cost at least $1 million to repair. The municipality’s lawsuit claimed the project, designed and overseen by Pasonick, was plagued with nearly […]