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 […]

Source: https://thesouthern.com/, July 14, 2022 By: Marilyn Halstead Thursday, Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced an interim consent order with Sugar Camp Energy LLC over an alleged release of dangerous “forever chemicals” from a mine in Franklin County. A lawsuit filed earlier this year alleges Sugar Camp used firefighting foams containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), […]

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/, July 14, 2022 By: Ellen Dennis An overheated drill may have sparked a four-alarm inferno that leveled an apartment building being built on Everett’s waterfront three years ago and caused an estimated $25 million in damages. The allegation about what touched off the July 16, 2020 fire that destroyed the four-story Waterfront Place Apartments, 1300 […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 14, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced a settlement with PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P. (PCS Nitrogen), to remedy hazardous waste issues at its former fertilizer manufacturing facility in Geismar, Louisiana. This settlement resolves alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and […]

Source: https://pantagraph.com/, July 11, 2022 By: Michael Hawthorne Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. Scientists call the chemicals per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS. They are commonly known […]

Source: https://www.mynbc5.com/, July 11, 2022 By: John Hawks A paving project on Route 11 in Springfield called the roadway to be shut for several hours on Monday after a tar spill caused an estimated 1,500 gallons of chemicals to spill out of a construction vehicle. Officials were called to the scene after receiving word that […]

Source: https://www.msn.com/ By: Howard Blume No one was injured. Two district vehicles parked under the shady concourse were destroyed. But the major structural failure triggered safety inspections that uncovered serious defects that prompted the shutdown of the 20-year-old campus — and led the school district to conclude that its main three-story building, with 110 classrooms, […]

Source: https://www.westernmassnews.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Mary Wilson Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued 13 manufacturers of toxic PFAS chemicals used in firefighting foam. They said the foam has led to the contamination of drinking water sources in communities across the state, including Westfield. Kristen Mello welcomes health officials onto her Westfield property… “To […]

Source: https://www.nhbr.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Bob Sanders Just as the state reached a $500,000 settlement with Georgia Pacific to reimburse it for its investigation of a Superfund site at the former Brown Paper Company mill in Berlin, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to renew its investigation of a contaminated site Wilton – […]

Source: https://constructionexec.com/, July 5, 2022 By: Mark D. Shifton Ensuring appropriate insurance coverage for large construction projects is an important and complicated process. While insurance will never be able to prevent potentially ruinous events such as catastrophic construction accidents or the discovery of latent construction defects long after substantial completion, the right insurance coverage can […]