New Day Underwriting Managers announces the promotion of John Heft to Senior Vice President, Director Real Estate Practice. With over 20 years of environmental underwriting experience, Mr. Heft has been a key player in New Day’s success. Since joining New Day in 2006, he has developed and managed the company’s real estate book of business; […]

Source: Insurance Journal, April 20, 2011 Ironshore Inc.’s Environmental Insurance unit has enhanced its asset-class specific Site Pollution Incident Legal Liability Select (SPILLS) suite of products to address risk exposures within the education sector, including public and private K-12 schools, colleges, universities and other educational facilities.  Ironshore’s SPILLS EDU program provides coverages for a range of […]

Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com, April 15, 2011 By: Tom Breen Contaminated water at Camp Lejeune led to an aggressive form of cancer for a woman who worked at schools on the base for over two decades, according to claims in a federal lawsuit that will be considered with several others by a judge in Atlanta. Linda Jones, […]

Source: http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com, April 14, 2011 By Nancy Cook Lauer Legal fight drags on for 2004 project The engineering firm that designed a $1.9 million water tank county officials say is defective has been considered for 18 additional county contracts but was awarded only one since the county sued it. The Department of Water Supply filed […]

Source: http://www.desmoinesregister.com, April 15, 2011 By: Jason Pulliam Polk County leaders plan to sue the architect of the Iowa Events Center for breach of contract and alleged design problems that caused the county to pay some $5 million to settle claims filed by contractors who worked on the project. Members of the Polk County Board […]

Source: http://www.columbiadailyherald.com By: Chris Graham Officials have sued the engineering company tapped to design and oversee construction of the city’s multi-million dollar lagoon system. The lawsuit filed in Maury County Circuit Court April 6 alleges engineers with Nashville-based James C. Hailey & Co. misrepresented the financial feasibility of a wastewater lagoon system to secure a […]

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com, April 14, 2011 The amount of asbestos discovered at the Summerlin overpass project is in excess of the legal limit, according to a report from ARMC, the asbestos consulting company. ARMC sent an email to Lee County and the Department of Environmental Protection notifying them of the amount of asbestos found at the site. […]

Source: The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register (West Virginia), April 15, 2011 By: Casey Junkins Wetzel County property owners believe Chesapeake Energy is trying to remove benzene-contaminated soil from a drilling site waste pit. Chesapeake officials, however, said company workers are busy repairing a slip at the drilling site – and are well within their rights to do […]

Source: The Modesto Bee, April 9, 2011 By: Garth Stapley The government must have had its reasons, 40 years ago, for turning gently rolling land near a peaceful river bend into a dump. Maybe no one wanted it for anything else. It likely was cheap and available, and — nine miles east of Modesto — […]

Source: http://www.mynewmarkets.com, April 13, 2011 By: Alan M. Parizo Pollution coverage a necessary option for agribusiness? If that sounds like a contradiction in terms to the agribusiness agent, consider that the exposures his customers face in growing and servicing the food chain from farm to table involves a pollution exposure in every step of the […]

Check out Tim Farrell’s article “Insurance Is Far More Than a Piece of Paper,” which is published in the April issue of Construction Executive Magazine. http://ow.ly/4A8yx

Read here about a California design firm that has asked a Minnesota court not to allow the company to be sued for a Minneapolis bridge collapse.