Source: https://www.nrdc.org, July 10, 2019 By: Erik D. Olson Recent months have brought a spate of Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks across northern New Jersey. In May, press outletsreported that at least three Newark residents had been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease. Three weeks later, officials in neighboring Union County announced that five people had died from Legionnaires’ disease, […]

Source: https://www.nbcmiami.com, July 10, 2019 By: Tony Pipitone Six more companies involved in the failed FIU pedestrian bridge project – including the bridge designer, FIGG Bridge Engineers — have agreed in principle to settle lawsuits against them and pay an as-yet undisclosed sum of money into a pool set aside for victims as part of […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, July 10, 2019 3M says it is expanding an investigation of possible chemical contamination around its north Alabama plant in Decatur. WAAY-TV reports the company issued a statement Monday saying it’s looking at old landfill sites in Morgan and Lawrence counties to test for waste that may include substances called PFAS. The landfills […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, July 10, 2019 Bourbon that leaked from a fire that destroyed a Jim Beam barrel warehouse in Kentucky is making its way to the Ohio River. State environmental officials say they’re assessing wildlife impacts and doing fish kill counts along the waterways near the Woodford County facility. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet […]

Source: EHS Today, July 3, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Any kind of environmental release at one of your facilities creates the potential for distracting regulatory investigations, stinging fines and costly litigation. Some of that can be ameliorated by conducting the right kind of internal investigation of a leak immediately after it occurs. Internal investigations may […]

A second round of testing is now underway across the Burlington airport to see whether chemical contamination at the Vermont Air National Guard base has spread underground beyond the security perimeter. A first round of soil and water testing, in 2017, confirmed the presence of polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals. Guard leaders say the contamination came from […]

Since liability cannot fully be avoided or delegated, here’s a comprehensive, customized management plan that can assist in limiting risk from Robert Alfert, Esq., of Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel. The liability assumed by condominium developers in Florida is both significant in breadth and in duration. Under Florida’s Condominium Act Warranty Law, developers are as […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, July 8, 2019 By: Bruce Schreiner A Jim Beam storage warehouse that burned down, destroying 45,000 barrels of aging whiskey, was equipped with sprinklers and was insured, the company says. Meanwhile, the famed distiller is still assessing the loss of the bourbon. Remnants of the fire that erupted late Tuesday at the central […]

Source: Columbus Dispatch, July 2, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com A resident of a Sunbury nursing home has been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, the Delaware General Health District announced Tuesday. The case involves a patient at the Country-View of Sunbury nursing home, the health district said. Beyond that, however, neither the health district nor the nursing […]

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com, June 14, 2019 By: Dan Reynolds In a bifurcated market, capacity abounds generally, but can shrink markedly for some high-hazard environmental risks. Determining liability and setting limits in environmental insurance is no easy task. How many previous owners were there of the pipeline that just broke and released oil into a New York […]

Source: https://www.buildingsaltlake.com, July 2, 2019 By: Taylor Anderson A proposed mixed-use development that would anchor the Central 9th neighborhood faces a complicated path forward as the developer works to mitigate contamination that surrounds the site. Urban 9th, LLC, has proposed creating residential, ground-floor retail and an active alleyway that promises to be a catalytic site […]

Source: Baltimore Sun, July 3, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said Tuesday that his office has sued the owner of the former St. Vincent’s Infant Asylum, alleging the illegal demolition of the historic West Baltimore property violated asbestos laws. The lawsuit, filed Friday on behalf of the Maryland Department of the […]