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April 16, 2013

Pulp Mill Pollution Dispute Settled

Read here about a settlement that has been reached in a dispute over pulp mill pollution in Oregon.  

April 16, 2013

Latest Environmental Products from XL Environmental

Source: eNews from XL Environmental, April 12, 2013 XL Environmental’s latest eNews highlights their latest environmental products including the following. Click each product to learn more. Environmental Food & Beverage Policy Environmental Oil & Gas Policy Environmental Real Estate Transactions Policy

April 16, 2013

Companies reach settlement for superfund cleanup in New Jersey

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 5, 2013 By: David Erickson and Mark Anstoetter, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered a consent decree calling for two companies to conduct a cleanup and reimburse EPA’s cleanuprelated costs at the Puchack Well Field Superfund site in Pennsauken, New Jersey. United States v. SL […]

April 12, 2013

Sick Building Blues

Read this Risk Scenario presented by  Risk & Insurance.  It begins with “The Scenario” followed by “The Analysis.”

April 12, 2013

Bacteria exclusion did not relieve insurer from duty to indemnify and defend wrongful death claim arising from hotel guest contracting legionnaires’ disease

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 29, 2013 By: Kevin R. Fincel and John O’Connor, Steptoe & Johnson LLP In Westport Insurance Corporation v. VN Hotel Group, LLC, et al., 2013 WL 1196957 (11th Cir. March 22, 2013), the Eleventh Circuit, applying Florida law, held that the fungi/bacteria exclusion in the policy at issue did not exclude from […]

April 11, 2013

Settlement moves Portland Harbor's River Mile 11 closer to cleanup

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com, April 8, 2013 By: Scott Learn After more than a year of legal wrangling, the city of Portland and five current and former property owners have agreed to move forward on one of Portland Harbor’s most contaminated sites. The $1.5 million in ” preliminary design” work agreed to at River Mile 11 is […]

April 11, 2013

Aspen US Forms New Marine, Energy, Construction Unit

Source: Insurance Journal, April 10, 2013 Aspen Insurance, the insurance segment of Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., has formed a specialty marine, energy and construction unit within its US Insurance business, led by Anthony S. Carroll who has been named executive vice president. The unit complements Aspen Insurance’s existing London-based operations in marine, energy and construction […]

April 11, 2013

ISO’s CGL Changes for 2013 – Part III

Source: Claims Journal, April 9, 2013 By: Chris Boggs Insurance Services Office’s (ISO’s) four major filings in commercial property, business auto, businessowners coverage, and commercial general liability (CGL) make 2013 a big year for insurance professionals. These articles focus on the changes that begin taking effect this year in the commercial general liability forms and […]

April 11, 2013

Revisiting the Facts on Fracking

Source: The New York Times, April 9, 2013 In their op-ed “The Facts on Fracking” (Views, March 14), Susan Brantley and Anna Meyendorff use a highly speculative estimate of the gas supply in the Marcellus shale of Eastern America that prevailed for years at the U.S. Energy Department. Using actual results from drilled wells, in […]

April 10, 2013

NH Pollution Trial Resumes

Read here about a pollution trial in New Hampshire that has resumed after two weeks.

April 10, 2013

TN Metals Recycler Sued

Read here about a lawsuit that has been brought against metals recycler in Nashville, Tennessee.  

April 10, 2013

Grasse River Cleanup Approved

Read here about the approval of a $243 million cleanup that has been approved for the Grasse River in New York.  

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