Source: https://www.firstcoastnews.com/, July 21, 2022 By: Tristan Hardy For years, Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary sat on toxic land. Something Willie Carodine didn’t know back when he was a kid. He was in the third and sixth grade when he attended the school. He used to play football on the field. “I was a happy lil’ boy,” […]

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, July 21, 2022 By: Autumn Demberger Fifty years ago, a naturally occurring heat resistant mineral came under scrutiny for its cancer-causing fibers. That mineral? Asbestos. At the time, the 1970s, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned asbestos in some home building materials used in things like wallboards and fireplaces, and the Occupational Safety […]

Source: https://www.timesnews.net/, July 21, 2022 By: Robert Sorrell Dueling lawsuits filed in connection with the 2020 collapse of the Tenneva Holiday Inn in downtown Bristol will likely be heard by a jury in late 2023, federal court records show. On Feb. 25, Cincinnati Insurance Co. filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Greeneville for […]

Source: https://fox23maine.com/, February 24, 2022 An Albion dairy farm is facing long-term effects due to PFAS or “forever chemicals” contaminating their milk. They are working long hours only to dump their product. Each morning Rebecca Hansen milks 40 cows at Misty Brook Farm. “I get up at 4:30. I love doing this, but I also […]

Source: Associated Press, July 20, 2022 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force nearly 20 companies that he alleges contaminated the environment with chemicals known as PFAS to reimburse the state for investigations and cleanup efforts. The lawsuit, filed in Dane County circuit court, names 18 companies […]

Source: https://www.wvpublic.org/, July 19, 2022 By: Curtis Tate An expert witness in a federal trial testified that “a soup of nasty contaminants” is leaking from a South Charleston landfill chemical company Union Carbide owns. Scott Simonton, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Marshall University, said drums of industrial waste buried in the Filmont […]

Source: https://www.law.com/, July 19, 2022 By: Colleen Murphy After obtaining default judgments for construction defects against a structural engineering firm and a construction inspection company, a New Jersey condominium association may directly sue those companies’ insurer, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled. At the same time, the court reversed the Appellate Division’s holding that those […]

Source: https://www.courierpress.com/, July 20, 2022 By: Mark Wilson The cleanup of a hazardous waste site in an Evansville neighborhood is largely done, but what comes next for the old Miller Plating & Metal Finishing property is still unclear. Located near the corner of North Sixth Avenue and Allens Lane, it is contaminated with TCE (trichloroethylene) and […]

Source: https://northpennnow.com/, July 20, 2022 By: Tony Di Domizio Environmental Protection Agency officials last week joined with Lansdale Borough and Montgomery County representatives to break ground on the cleanup efforts and removal and replacement of TCE-contaminated soil at a North Penn Area 6 Superfund site in the borough, thanks to $4.9 million from the new Bipartisan Infrastructure […]

Source: https://www.seacoastonline.com/, July 19, 2022 By: Patrick Cronin More than a dozen lawsuits filed against the Sands Resort stemming from the 2018 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the Hampton Beach hotel have been settled. The outbreak took two lives and sickened dozens of people, leading to litigation. Read more.

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, July 19, 2022 By: Jim Sams New Jersey’s Direct Action Statute allows a condominium association’s construction defects claims against an insurer, but the plaintiff must comply with a binding arbitration clause in the policies, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. The unanimous decision overturns rulings by both the trial court and the state Appellate […]

Source: https://www.therepublic.com/, July 16, 2022 By: Andy East Camp Atterbury has confirmed that contractors have detected toxic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, low birth weight and an array of other health problems in the groundwater on the training base near Edinburgh. The base, which is located in parts of Bartholomew, Brown and Johnson counties, joins […]