Source: https://www.usatoday.com/, March 8, 2023 By: Mike Snider Whiskey drinkers have heard about the angel’s share, the portion of the liquid magically lost in the distilling process. What many haven’t heard about is the whiskey fungus, an ugly byproduct of that process. But familiarity about the fungus is growing thanks to a recent lawsuit, which resulted […]

Source: https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/, March 5, 2023 By: Sarah Cassi More than three months after a tanker truck crash sent thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel into a Bethlehem neighborhood and down storm drains, crews are still working to clean up the spill that reached a tributary of the Monocacy Creek. The Nov. 17 crash […]

Source: https://www.usnews.com/, March 3, 2023 Las Vegas area health officials say Legionnaires’ disease was found in two people who stayed at the same hotel in recent months. The Southern Nevada Health District announced Friday it is looking into two cases reported in guests who stayed at The Orleans Hotel & Casino a few miles west of […]

Source: https://www.stripes.com/, March 3, 2023 By: Heather Gann Like the Birmingham Water Works, the city of Birmingham has also sued more than two dozen chemical manufacturers in South Carolina federal court over accusations of contaminating drinking water. In 2021 the city of Birmingham filed a similar case accusing the same companies of manufacturing products that contain […]

Source: https://www.101morefm.ca/, March 3, 2023 By: Linda Morgan Evertrust being sued for “deficiencies and failures” at Niagara Falls condo The developer behind the collapsed condo project in Welland is being sued by residents in a Niagara Falls condo. According to the CBC, the residents of Upper Vista Niagara Falls have filed a $10 million lawsuit […]

Source: https://www.wdrb.com/, March 3, 2023 By: Chris Otts Humana Inc. says it has discovered structural defects in the bowels of its nearly 40-year-old corporate headquarters in downtown Louisville, leading the health insurer to sue renowned architect Michael Graves’ firm as well as others involved in the 27-story building’s construction in the early 1980s. A lawsuit […]

Source: https://www.stripes.com/, March 2, 2023 By: Heather Gann The Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) is taking multiple chemical companies to federal court in South Carolina, accusing them of contaminating Birmingham’s drinking water supply — which was never disclosed to the public before now. And despite contending in the suit that water continues to be contaminated, […]

Source: https://www.newscentermaine.com/, March 2, 2023 By: Vivien Leigh More than 50 farms across Maine have been flagged by regulators as having some type of contamination from toxic chemicals known as PFAS. The industrial compounds were in wastewater sludge trucked to farms and used as fertilizer, leaching into well water and soil for decades. Read more.

Source: https://watercollaborativedelivery.org/, February 27, 2023 By: John Coffin Design-build contracts continue to mature and evolve in many aspects, including terms related to liability. In the world of water infrastructure delivery, design-build most often pairs a contractor and a design firm. The well-established risk management tools for these entities—developed over decades of exposure in the design-bid-build […]

Source: Liberty Mutual Insurance Over the past 2 years, microplastics have been the subject of hundreds of articles and studies discussing their  prevalence and potential impact on the environment and all forms of life The extent to which microplastics might be  harmful is currently unclear but the science is continuing to develop Furthermore, while litigation […]

Source Liberty Mutual Insurance Microplastics are fragments of any type of plastic less than 5 millimeters (mm) in length1 and are an increasing topic  of risk discussions due to their prevalence in the environment and negative impacts they potentially pose to the earth and its inhabitants. The term microplastics was first introduced to differentiate these […]

Source: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/, February 28, 2023 By: Jared Weber The owners of Stamford’s historic lock factory — which may be headed for demolition — has filed a wide-ranging lawsuit claiming they were deceived into purchasing the property. Manhattan-based GAIA Real Estate has sued South End developer Building and Land Technology, the city of Stamford and multiple other entities […]