Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, November 17, 2025\ By: Matthew Sellers A West Virginia appeals court has upended insurer defenses in a major construction defect case, spotlighting coverage duties and notice requirements for commercial liability carriers. On November 13, 2025, the Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia reversed key parts of a lower court’s ruling in a […]

Source: https://www.constructionrisk.com/, November 13, 2025 By: Kent Holland An architect (HKS Architects) was sued by its client (Orlando Health, Inc,) for negligent breach of contract – alleging serious design defects required immediate repairs.  HKS filed a third-party complaint against its engineer subcontractor (BBM) alleging that the Sub was the responsible party because it committed the […]

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, November 6, 2025 The global data center industry is experiencing unprecedented growth driven by artificial intelligence and cloud computing demands, with close to $7 trillion projected to be spent on construction data centers by 2030, according to Allianz Commercial research. “Data centers are particularly hot and rapidly growing,” said Darren Tasker, head of […]

Source: https://patch.com/, November 10, 2025 By: Alexis Tarrazi A gas station in Bridgewater is facing a lawsuit after New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette accused the business of failing to clean up gasoline contaminants and pay more than $90,000 in fines. The lawsuit was […]

Source: https://www.syracuse.com/, November 10, 2025 Developers have started cleaning up a 2.5-acre vacant lot where they intend to build senior apartments for the second phase of the new East Adams neighborhood, near the Interstate 81 viaduct. The block is just south of McKinney Manor, where 25 apartment units have been torn down to make way for the first […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, November 7, 2025 By: Andrew G. Simpson A federal court of appeals has revived a case over an alleged failure of insurance broker Willis of New Jersey to notify the insurer for one of its New York clients of the presence of lead paint in his residential building in Queens. The landlord, Paro […]

Source: https://www.theinsurer.com/, October 19, 2025 By: George Abbott PFAS have been dubbed “the next asbestos” and are frequently cited by executives as the number one emerging risk for the casualty market. Read more.

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, October 30, 2025 A U.S. court reinstated a $185 million verdict against Bayer’s Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Washington state school on Thursday. The Washington state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that had vacated the verdict in a 2021 trial over claims brought by three teachers at Sky Valley […]

Source: https://www.procopio.com/, November 4, 2025 By: Laurence R. Phillips, Alexandra (“Sasha”) Selfridge and Preston Cavignac For companies in construction, development, or any industry reliant on major capital projects, the current risk environment is fraught with complexity. Material costs are volatile, insurance carriers are tightening coverage, and courts continue to expand or limit indemnity and exclusion […]

Source: https://www.news5cleveland.com/, November 3, 2025 By: Drew Scofield, Clay Lepard The battle over the roof at Lakeside High School in Ashtabula County has now turned into a lawsuit, with the district taking action over what it says is Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s refusal to pay the claim for repairs following a roof collapse nearly a […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, November 4, 2025 By: Kelly House More than five years after first announcing stricter controls on industrial farm pollution in Michigan, state environmental regulators will finally start enforcing them. Regulations issued Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy require the state’s largest “confined animal feeding operations” — or CAFOs, […]

Source: https://www.wpr.org/, October 30, 2025 By: Danielle Kaeding On a Saturday in June, Nancy Sattler bats away flies while standing in the shade of the Moen Lake boat landing near the town of Stella. With the sun’s sweltering heat, it’s exactly the kind of humid day that leads people to escape to the water. Sattler, […]