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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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

Source: Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, April 7, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The company handling disposal of Hurricane Sandy debris here has a rather dirty history from the work it did along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, according to the director of the Sierra Club New Jersey chapter. The company, AshBritt, left new contaminated sites in […]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Environmental advocates in the region worry that the State Building Commission’s approval of the University of Tennessee’s request to seek natural gas drilling bids on UT property sets a bad precedent for publicly owned land. If the UT school of forestry can shop hydraulic […]

Read here about a fracking rush that is being seen in the southern counties of Illinois.