Published in Risk and Insurance Magazine and authored by New Day’s own Mitch Cohen Source: http://www.riskandinsurance.com, October 15, 2011 Building information modeling technology eases the interaction between the owner, the design team and the general contractor, and that can raise the risk of higher professional liability exposures. By MITCH COHEN, an assistant vice president at New […]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com, October 7, 2011 A New York high school put its students on alert Thursday after confirming a case of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, less than a year after one of its wrestling stars was hospitalized for almost a month with the superbug. The school district of Hauppauge, a town in Long Island’s Suffolk […]

Read here about how a Utah extermination company and its former employee pleaded guilty to misapplication of a pesticide.

Read here about an Idaho mining company that will pay millions to the federal government to settle the clean up of the Silver Valley.

Source: Daily Press (Newport News, VA), October 10, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Eric Bailey became so frustrated when moving out of his Chinese drywall-contaminated home in Denbigh this spring, he took out a Sharpie pen and scrawled messages on his gray walls. “Chinese drywall brought to U by U.S. trade policy,” Bailey wrote in thick […]

Source: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA), October 10, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Just about a year ago, a monitoring well near the Bourne boundary of the Massachusetts Military Reservation showed levels of perchlorate six times the limit set by the state for safe drinking water. To the public, the discovery came out of nowhere, but […]

Read here about a South Dakota meatpacking plant that will pay a $44,000 fine for polluting a river.

Source: The State, Columbia, SC, October 8, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com One of the nation’s largest homebuilders has agreed to pay a $625,000 fine for a series of storm water violations at construction sites across the country, including sites in South Carolina, the federal government said Friday. Ryland Homes failed to obtain environmental permits in […]

Read here about the 28,000 pool chemical injuries/illnesses that occurred from 2002 to 2008.

Read here about a Colorado mine spill that prompted an EPA investigation.

Source: Meridian Star (MS), October 5, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city of Meridian has reached a settlement in a litigation with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality over the operation of the city’s wastewater treatment plant. DEQ was initially going to fine the city around $75,000 for alleged violations in the operation of the plant […]

Source: http://content.usatoday.com, October 3, 2011 By: Douglas Stanglin A massive industrial fire at a chemical processing plant is sending plumes of black smoke into the sky near Waxahachie, in north-central Texas, The Dallas Morning News reports. The fire began before noon at the Magnablend chemical processing plant and quickly spread as a burning liquid. At one […]