Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff, and Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent The Boston Globe Elevated levels of carbon monoxide forced the evacuation today of the Liberty Hotel, sending hundreds of workers, guests and two monkeys and a pet crow out onto Charles Street. When the owner of the crow named “Shaft” […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental A five-star hotel in Dubai is testing for Legionnaires’ Disease after three guests contracted the illness. One of the guests of the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, British cricket scorer and broadcaster Bill Frindall, died on Thursday after leaving Dubai. A spokeswoman for the hotel said all tests for the bacterium that causes […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Barbara De Lollis, USA TODAY In the last three months, a European tourist who’d stayed at the luxury EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami died from Legionnaires’ disease, while two other prior guests had fallen ill with the same serious form of pneumonia, according to the Miami Herald. Because all three […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The Associated Press Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:48 p.m. MIAMI – About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one guest died and at least two others became sick since October from Legionnaire’s disease. Health officials […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Oct. 18, 2008 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Bacterium found at Polo Towers By ANNETTE WELLS REVIEW-JOURNAL The Southern Nevada Health District issued a warning to past and present guests of Polo Towers on Friday that a bacterium common in warm water that causes Legionnaires’ disease was discovered in the resort’s […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The hospitalization cost of three U.S. waterborne diseases comes to more than $500 million annually, federal health officials say. Study authors Michael Beach of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says healthcare costs for three common waterborne diseases — Legionnaires’ disease, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis — amount to $539 million annually. Using […]

Ironshore has introduced their Healthcare Site Pollution Incident Legal Liability Select (SPILLS) form, a comprehensive environmental insurance policy that assists healthcare facilities in managing their environmental exposures. This form may be used with a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and habitational real estate, specifically targeting hospitals, assisted living, skilled nursing, hospice services and other medical […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental BY DOUGLAS HANKS III dhanks@herald.com The developer of Miami’s mammoth Four Seasons tower is facing millions of dollars in lawsuits over a mold outbreak at a similar high-end condominium complex in Washington, D.C. Millennium Partners is wrapping up an extensive clean-up and relocation effort at its new Ritz-Carlton project in Washington, […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental A Hawaii judge approved a $1.8 million class action settlement, which would provide compensation to Hilton Hawaiian Village guests who were exposed to toxic mold in Kalia Tower Guest Rooms in June and July of 2002. According to the class action toxic mold claim, the hotel was aware of the mold’s […]

Florida real estate developer St. Joe Co. is suing Halliburton Co. over its role in the rig explosion that led to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. St. Joe states that Halliburton, which was responsible for encasing BP PLC’s subsea well in cement, ignored safety procedures and didn’t properly manage the cementing […]

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM Solvent contamination was discovered in the groundwater at an industrial park where an XL insured’s adhesive facility had closed and ceased operations. The insured facility had operated a hot metal adhesives plant at that location. A claim was made by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection “DEP” for impact […]

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM A claim was made by a tenant of and against an XL insured real estate holding company. The claim was for the presence of microbial (mold) growth in two warehouses on an insured property. THE RESPONSE XL’s environmental claims counsel retained an analytical forensics firm on the insured’s behalf […]