Source: http://www.denverpost.com, May 30, 2011 By: Bruce Finley As mountain snow starts to melt, trickling toxic acid laced with dissolved metals — arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc — is fouling Colorado watersheds. Nobody dares try to stop it. Among the casualties: Peru Creek east of the Keystone ski area has been pronounced “biologically dead.” State environmental […]

Source: http://www.scpr.org, May 24, 2011 By: Molly Peterson Homeowners in Carson’s Carousel neighborhood have faced setbacks in their efforts to hold developers and the Shell Oil company responsible for toxic soil under their houses. Regional water regulators have told Shell to clean up what was for 40 years a tank farm with open reservoirs of […]

Source: Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), May 24, 1011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Electronic components maker AVX Corp. has purchased the Myrtle Beach property that it contaminated with a suspected carcinogen called trichloroethylene, according to Horry County property records. AVX paid nearly $4.6 million for the approximately 21.5-acre parcel previously owned by Horry Land Co., according to a […]

Source: http://www.ktvb.com, May 26, 2011 The Washington State Supreme Court upheld a ruling against an engineering firm that it was negligent in the horrific death of a man who fell into a vat of hot sewer sludge in an accident at the Spokane wastewater treatment plant in 2004. On May 10, 2004 a digester dome […]

Source: http://www.wect.com, May 24, 2011 By: Debra Worley A lawsuit against a sitting city council member will continue as planned. The Wilmington Housing Authority sued council member Ronald Sparks and his company for work Sparks’ engineering company did on an apartment complex in September 2005. His company was hired to conduct infrared tests at the […]

Source:  http://www.wlfi.com, May 24, 2011 By: Tiffanie Dismore Attorneys are calling a Kraft Global Foods settlement one of the first successful environmental lawsuits of its kind. Those involved in the class action lawsuit against a multi-billion dollar Kraft are comparing it to a biblical story. “It was back and forth negotiations like David and Goliath,” said […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), May 24, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The expansion of West Virginia’s natural gas industry could open up new battlefronts in the courtroom over the protection of property rights, health and the environment. Some of the legal uncertainty may result from the failure so far of state lawmakers to settle questions […]

In the past two years the marketplace for Contractor’s Professional Liability insurance (CPrL) has changed substantially – new carriers have entered the market, new coverages have been created, and new exposures have been identified. As a result, proper customization of your construction client’s CPrL program has become an even greater challenge. This is a task, […]

New Day Underwriting Managers has always made it a priority to keep its broker partners educated on the vast number of environmental and construction-related professional liability products available in the marketplace. As part of this priority, throughout 2011 New Day will issue Product Highlights to our broker partners. This is the first in a series […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , May 19, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Companies whose specialty is treating wastewater are hoping for a surge of business after today’s deadline for natural gas drillers to voluntarily stop sending their toxic flowback from hydraulic fracturing to publicly owned treatment plants. “It’s a game changer. My phone is ringing off the […]

Source: Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), May 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Mark Teseniar was skeptical when his telephone rang in 2007. On the line were his tenants who had just moved into a Johns Island condominium that he and his wife, Nan, own at Twelve Oaks at Fenwick, off Maybank Highway. “They complained pretty […]

Source: Marin Independent Journal (CA), May 16, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com More than three years after a treatment plant spilled millions of gallons of sewage into Richardson Bay, a collection agency that feeds into the plant wants to hold the city of Mill Valley — the plant’s contract operator — legally and financially responsible. An […]