When it comes to renewing professional liability insurance, contractors often feel like no time is the right time. With too much else in the pipeline—new proposals to submit, multi-million-dollar projects to finish and a multitude of other logistics to handle—most business owners just sign the paperwork and move on. Unfortunately, this mistake has cost numerous […]

Source: http://www.lasvegassun.com, June 28, 2000 The opening date of the new UNLV Lied Library is a full year behind schedule. University officials announced Tuesday the opening has been pushed back to Jan. 9. The $53 million building project has been plagued with construction troubles since it began in March 1998. Mold that could cause serious […]

Source: http://www.lasvegassun.com, March 22, 2001 More than $1 million might be needed to cure construction defects at the Lied Library at UNLV, and the state is preparing to do legal battle with the contractors and subcontractors who claim they are still owed $6.5 million for extra work. The state Board of Examiners received an update […]

Source: http://exa.gmnews.com, August 6, 2014 By: Taylor M. Lier Arsenic-impacted sediment is being removed from within several segments of an unnamed tributary to Crosswicks Creek. According to a land use notice Upper Freehold Township received from the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the removal of material will be done at two locations at the […]

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com, August 4, 2014 By: Kelsey O’Halloran Cleanup of a leaky fuel tank at Banks High School is finally over, but it’s driven a $75,000 hole into Banks School District‘s finances and may affect other school programs. In the past two weeks, the school district has removed 596 tons of contaminated soil from around the […]

Read here about a $6.8 million settlement in a Missouri class action lawsuit over landfill odor.

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com, August 6, 2014 By: Don Hopey Leaks of fracking waste water from three impoundments in Washington County have contaminated soil and groundwater, prompting the state to issue a violation notice at one site and increase monitoring and testing at another. John Poister, a state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman, said the problems at […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 4, 2014 By: George B. Hall, Jr., Phelps Dunbar LLP The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s findings that CGL policies issued decades after property contamination do not cover an insured’s liability for environmental damage and that insurers were not in bad faith for their denial of […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, August 4, 2014 By: Judy Greenwald A construction company’s commercial general liability insurance policy does not provide coverage for faulty workmanship or subcontractor negligence, says an appeals court, in upholding a lower court ruling. Little Rock, Arkansas-based J-McDaniel Construction Co. Inc. purchased a CGL policy from a unit of the Great American Insurance […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 1, 2014 By: Carl A. Salisbury, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP The so-called “business risk” exclusions in the standard Commercial General Liability policy are not models of clear drafting.  But it’s surprising, nonetheless, how often courts simply cannot figure out how to apply them correctly even to a simple set of facts.  […]

Source: http://www.sfgate.com, August 4, 2014 By: Jaxon Van Derbeken Top Caltrans officials are expected to respond Tuesday to accusations that they “gagged and banished” engineers who identified construction problems on the new Bay Bridge eastern span and that the agency failed to maintain basic quality control on the project. In advance of a state Senate hearing, […]

Source: http://www.pri.org, August 2, 2014 By: Adam Wernick A good number of people in Pennsylvania no longer have drinkable well water. Among them is John Fair, who lives north of Pittsburgh in Butler County. He has to get his drinking water through a “water drive” organized by neighbors in his community, called the Woodlands. Some Woodlands […]