Source: http://www.dispatch.com, October 21, 2014 By: Lucas Sullivan Columbus will spend about $1.6 million to clean up a Near East Side park where contaminants from an old fertilizer plant were found in the soil. Last night, the Columbus City Council unanimously approved spending $309,000 for engineers to design a drain system for the new soil […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, October 14, 2014 By: Barry Zalma Construction defect suits are now flooding the courts of North America in greater numbers every year. The majority of construction defect suits and appellate decisions arise in a few litigious jurisdictions but are spreading across the country like Kudzu. The courts of Texas, Florida, New York, Colorado, […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 17, 2014 By: Michael H. Sampson, Courtney C. T. Horrigan, John N. Ellison, Kevin B. Dreher and David E. Weiss, Reed Smith Ebola has become a worldwide crisis. It has ravaged Liberia and other West African countries. It has been diagnosed in Europe. And, cases are now being reported in the United […]

Source: http://www.advisenrisknetwork.com, October 15, 2014 By: Chad Hemenway We’ve wondered about the insurance implications of the Ebola virus as its entrance into the US and other countries has stoked concern and prompted leaders at the highest levels to think of, and plan to mitigate, worst-case scenarios. The UN Security Council called the Ebola virus “a […]

Source: http://www.ibj.com, October 17, 2014 The Carmel Redevelopment Commission has accepted an $800,000 settlement offer from the engineering firm that reviewed plans for the Palladium concert hall’s roof, inching closer to resolving a years-long legal dispute over its flawed design. Indianapolis-based Lynch, Harrison & Brumleve Inc. is not named in the multimillion-dollar lawsuit the CRC […]

Source: http://www.nola.com, October 16, 2014 By: Mark Schleifstein ATP Infrastructure Partners, LP, the owner of a floating oil platform that was tethered to a wellhead 125 miles south of New Orleans until earlier this year, has agreed to pay a $1 million fine to settle a federal lawsuit over illegal discharges of oil and dispersants. The Environmental […]

Source: http://gantdaily.com, October 15, 2014 By: Jessica Shirey The Clearfield County Economic Development Corp. (CCEDC) is “deep” into the clean-up of the former Howe’s Leather tannery site, according to Rob Swales, CCEDC chief executive officer. The site spans 26.5 acres in Curwensville Borough. It’s recognized as a brownfield site by the state Department of Environmental […]

Source: http://www.kitsapsun.com, october 15, 2014 By: Christopher Dunagan In a clash of two federal agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Navy to take care of a hazardous garbage dump along Highway 3 about two miles southwest of Gorst. The 5.7-acre dump, previously known as the Bremerton Auto Wrecking Landfill, has collapsed several times […]

Source: http://www.usatoday.com, October 9, 2014 By: Todd Unger Hazardous-cleanup companies get a lot of odd requests, but nothing prepared the crew at CG Environmental for this past week. A 15-person team spent the weekend decontaminating the Dallas apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, had stayed since coming Sept. 20 to the United States […]

Source: Daily Journal of Commerce, October 14,2014 A Louisiana waste disposal site says it won’t accept the ashes generated when a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings from his apartment were incinerated and a judge has signed an order temporarily blocking the disposal in the state. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order. Caldwell’s office said […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, October 1, 2014 By: Phelps Dunbar LLP The South Carolina Court of Appeals recently held that a “your work” exclusion excluded coverage for cost of repairs related to the insured’s subcontractor’s use of defective sealant tape in construction.  Precision Walls, Inc. v. Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 2014 WL 3610895 (S.C. Ct. App. July […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, October 1, 2014 By: Phelps Dunbar LLP The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an insurer properly denied coverage of claims arising out of a contractor’s alleged faulty work under a policy in force prior to the passage of Ark. Code. §23-79-155, which mandates that policies define “occurrence” to include […]