Already expecting a downturn, the commercial construction industry was further impacted when COVID-19 either delayed or shuttered projects nationwide and a seemingly endless barrage of storms caused more than $95 billion in damages across the United States alone. This is on top of the growing array of emerging contaminant liability claims that increasingly plague jobsites and the rise of nuclear verdicts in the casualty line sector that grew by 335% from 2012 to 2019 according to American Transportation Research Institute. Read more.