Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, April 22, 2022 By: Elana Ashati Jefferson There are industries for which environmental and pollution liability exposures are obvious: Think petroleum refining, storage and transportation or chemical manufacturing and distribution. “Pollution used to be a really niche coverage,” says Michael Padula, head of the U.S. environmental practice at Aspen Insurance Holdings. “But now we’re […]

Source: https://www.crossingbroad.com/, April 19, 2022 By: Anthony SanFilippo Two longtime Philadelphia Flyers athletic trainers, who have worked side-by-side at the team’s training facility in Voorhees, N.J. for the past 18 years, are suing team ownership, among others, after receiving similar medical diagnoses that they allege came from a work environment in which they were unknowingly […]

Source: https://nypost.com/, April 19, 2022 By: Ariel Zilber General Electric should foot the bill for the estimated $22 billion it would cost to rehabilitate a 200-mile-long stretch of the Hudson River due to the company’s decades-long contamination of the New York state waterway, according to an environmental group. Scenic Hudson, the Hudson Valley-based nongovernmental organization, released […]

Source: https://www.theadvocate.com/, April 20, 2022 By: David J. Mitchell Olin Corp. has ended its immediate response efforts to a chlorine leak that had forced residents in Plaquemine to shelter in their homes for about three hours Monday night and closed local roads. Company officials said Wednesday morning that their air monitoring has confirmed “there is […]

Source: https://www.aiacontracts.org/ By: Sara M. Bour, Esq. Offsite construction has numerous benefits. Compared to traditional construction, it can bring efficient practices, new technologies, and increased safety to a project. Another benefit to offsite and modular construction is their reduction in construction and demolition. Environmentally sustainable practices are inherent in many modular delivery systems, typically resulting […]

Source: https://www.aiacontracts.org/, March 31, 2022 By: Jessyca Henderson, Esq. Materials are fundamental to sustainable construction practices, from sourcing to installation to deconstruction and reuse or recycling. In 2016, the AIA released its report, Materials transparency & risk for architects: An introduction to advancing professional ethics while managing professional liability risks, to guide architects in understanding the need […]

Source: https://www.law.com, April 14, 2022 By: John Ellison, Jessica Kraus and Michael Merlo Litigation over PFAS in the United States has been headline inducing. As companies that manufacture PFAS or use PFAS in the manufacturing of other end products are strapped with extraordinarily large verdicts and settlements, many will need to turn to their insurance […]

Source: https://www.marinij.com/, April 16, 2022 By: Richard Halstead A Marin County jury has rejected a lawsuit by the owners of the St. Vincent’s School for Boys property seeking compensation for polluted groundwater in San Rafael. Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco sued the owners of the Marinwood Plaza Shopping Center, and various […]

Source: https://www.informnny.com/, April 14, 2022 By: Isabella Colello A chemical manufacturing company based in New York has received severe penalties from the Department of Environmental Conservation. According to DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos, two Orders of Consent were executed with SHHPP US, LLC, known as “SABIC,” in Selkirk, New York on April 13. This included $322,500 […]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, April 15, 2022 By: Stefanos Chen Hero, a new 22-story condominium building in Long Island City, Queens, promised luxury: tall ceilings, high-end appliances and Spanish oak cabinetry in every apartment. Amenities would include a yoga studio, a gym, a pet spa, a roof deck “sky lounge” and a Zen garden. But since it […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, April 13, 2022 By: Jam,es D. Brussla, Levenfeld PearsteinLLC Though climate change dominates headlines during Earth Month, health experts (and lawyers) are increasingly concerned about a ubiquitous group of chemicals known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). The few people who have heard of PFAS were probably introduced to them through the 2019 […]

Source: https://dailyvoice.com/, April 12, 2022 By: Nicole Valinote Northrop Grumman has agreed to pay $35 million to the United States for environmental cleanup costs related to a former plant on Long Island. The payment resolves a civil lawsuit brought by the US against the aerospace and defense technology company, according to an announcement on Tuesday, […]