Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, February 10, 2022 By: Marianna Wharry</span. A structural engineering firm will have to face its insurers’ claims that they have no obligation to defend the firm from lawsuits filed due to the collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, a federal judge ruled Feb. 3. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland denied […]

Source: https://www.wunc.org/, February 9, 2022 By: Jay Price The Department of Defense is testing hundreds of military sites around the country, including dozens in North Carolina, for contamination from chemicals known by the acronym PFAS. The chemicals are used in a host of products and often called “forever chemicals” because they don’t fully break down […]

Source: https://www.sdvlaw.com/, February 10, 2022 By: Eric M. Clarkson Nearly half of America’s construction projects are now design-build in a continuing shift. As a result, contractors are taking on more professional liability (“PL”) risk than ever before, and the risk management landscape is changing. There are unique challenges to managing PL risks and claims. Specifically, […]

Source: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/, February 9, 2022 By: Joshua Ceballos During the first week of February, two wastewater pipes ruptured in Miami Beach, spilling sewage into waterways that feed into Biscayne Bay. Certain parts of the city remain under a “No Contact With Water” advisory, which recommends “not swimming or engaging in recreational water activity.” But what […]

Source: https://www.cltampa.com/, February 2, 2022 By: Justin Garcia Last month, contractors for Frontier Communications were named in several reclaimed water spill incidents, totaling over 500,000 gallons. The spills occurred when three different contractors working for Frontier hit water mains and released the water in mostly small amounts, except for a huge half-a-million gallon spill on […]

Source: https://www.tallahassee.com/, February 8, 2022 By: Christopher Cann A preliminary test and a separate evaluation found mold and elevated levels of radon throughout Florida State University’s Sandels Building. This comes less than two weeks after the building was closed following the release of a faculty report that linked the building to eight cancer cases, three of which were fatal. Read more.

Source: https://fox17.com/, February 4, 2022 By: Scott Couch FOX 17 News has been bringing you stories about contamination at U.S. military bases caused by the use of a toxic firefighting foam for years. That foam contains so-called “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and other problems. Now, we learn those chemicals have been found in the […]

Source: https://cbs6albany.com/ Six years after a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Hoosick Falls community, there’s word the $65 million PFOA settlement is now a done deal. The settlement comes overnight, after many claims the drinking water in the Rensselaer County village was contaminated with the toxic chemical PFOA. Three companies — St. Gobain, 3M, and […]

Source: https://www.darientimes.com/, February 6, 2022 The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The Seattle Times reports the district proposed the settlement in November under court seal, preventing the public from seeing the offer, but the $34 million figure appears […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, February 3, 2022 By: Wilfred Chan For Hurricane Katrina survivors in the Lower Ninth Ward, it had seemed like a prayer answered: in 2006, Brad Pitt announced an initiative to rebuild New Orleans’ storm-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward with sustainable, flood-proof, affordable homes, designed by a list of A-list architects. The 109 homes on […]

Source: https://www.justice.gov/, August 5, 2021 The Department of Justice today filed criminal charges under the Clean Water Act against Summit Midstream Partners LLC, a North Dakota pipeline company that discharged 29 million gallons of produced water from its pipeline near Williston, North Dakota, over the course of nearly five months in 2014-2015. The discharge of […]

Source: https://www.post-gazette.com/, February 2, 2022 By: Anya Litvak Energy Transfer, which built the Revolution Pipeline that exploded in Beaver County in 2018, is being charged with nine counts of environmental crimes over the incident. Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Wednesday that a grand jury had found the Texas-based pipeline company “repeatedly ignored environmental protocols,” […]