Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 22, 2015 By: John O’Connor and Jeremy B. Glen In Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corporation v. LSi-Lowery Systems, Inc, — F.3d –, 2015 WL 127368 (8th Cir. Jan. 9, 2015), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, applying Missouri law, affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for insurer when […]

Source: http://www.newyorklawjournal.com, January 21, 2015 By: Amaris Elliott-Engel An insurance company no longer is required to cover an upstate New York utility company for the cleanup of hazardous waste at seven plants that provided gas lamps during the 1800s and early 1900s, an appellate court has ruled. The Appellate Division, First Department, found earlier this […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 20, 2015 By: Mike Davis The five-year effort to address lead contamination at the Italian-American Sportsmen’s Club is close to a conclusion with nearly all sides agreeing that it has been handled appropriately. In a letter sent to council members, Kenneth Kloo, remediation management director at the state Department of Environmental Protection, […]

Source: http://www.hbindependent.com, January 21, 2015 By: Nicole Knight Shine Damages are being sought by the families of some students who attended three elementary schools in the Ocean View School District that are temporarily shut because of asbestos concerns that arose late last year. A claim filed with Ocean View on Dec. 19 alleges that the […]

Source: http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com, January 22, 2015 By: Nick Glunt The Medina County District Library will receive $640,000 in an out-of-court settlement ending a lawsuit over defects in the construction of the Lodi Library. The library was closed in November 2011 for 2 1/2 years after officials said the wooden beams in the cathedral ceiling of the […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 21, 2015 The debate over hydraulic fracturing, a technique used to drill oil and natural gas wells, may be coming to Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports there’s been increased interest among oil and gas companies in areas of eastern and central Kentucky. Local officials told the newspaper that companies have signed hundreds […]

Source: http://www.whio.com, January 20, 2015 The Ohio Second Court of Appeals has ruled an architecture firm should be held financially responsible for a deadly Legionnaire’s outbreak at Miami Valley Hospital in 2011. The court last week upheld a decision by the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, finding architecture firm NBBJ L.L.C. breached its contract with […]

Source: Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, PA), January 19, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a proposed settlement with several companies in connection with a large groundwater contamination Superfund site in Warren County, New Jersey. The EPA added the Pohatcong Valley Groundwater Contamination Superfund site to the […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, January 19, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Oil from a broken pipeline has seeped into the Yellowstone River and contaminated a Montana town’s water supply, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday evening. The agency described the crude spill of roughly 1,200 barrels as significant. It occurred Saturday morning less than […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 15, 2015 By: Meredith Whigham Caiafa, Carlton Fields Jorden Burt We previously discussed the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Crownover v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co., No. 11-10166 (5th Cir June 27, 2014)—an opinion that seemed to revive the contractual liability exclusion by distinguishing a landmark Texas decision that had narrowed […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 16, 2015 By: S.P.Sullivan The company selling the former Hoffmann-La Roche campus in Clifton and Nutley plans to complete its large-scale clean up of contaminated soil ahead of construction of the state’s first private medical school on the property, company officials said Thursday. But ongoing groundwater remediation at the site, where pharmaceutical […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 15, 2015 By: Brian Nearing The owner of the badly polluted site of a long-abandoned dry-cleaning business said Thursday she had no idea of the property’s troubled history. She now faces what could be a million-dollar cleanup bill, which she says she cannot afford, and pressure from the state to act. “I got […]