Source: Naples Daily News (FL), March 15, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Lee County will pay more than $200,000 for the clean-up and monitoring of a site where an emergency generator with a cracked filter bowl leaked about 600 gallons of diesel into the ground last August. The leak happened at the Lee County Jail on […]

Read here about a plan to modify permits at two ash dumps in North Carolina to stop pollution from seeping into waterways.

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 17, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The president of Freedom Industries Inc., Gary Southern, wants protection from lawsuits while keeping his $230,000-a-year job to wind down the company at the center of a West Virginia chemical spill that tainted the water supply of 300,000 people. In documents filed Saturday with […]

Source: The Charleston Gazette (WV), March 18, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Two new reports from an independent team confirmed Monday that people can smell extremely low concentrations of Crude MCHM and that significant data gaps exist that cloud what is known about the potential public health impacts of January’s Elk River chemical spill. The reports […]

Read here about a lawsuit filed by the state of Alaska against a North Pole refinery for contamination to groundwater.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 10, 2014 By: Douglas R. Burnett and John J. Reilly, Squire Sanders Incidents involving chemicals and hazardous substances in transit may bring significant liabilities for cargo owners, manufacturers, shippers and purchasers. In many instances these liabilities are not fully understood. Cargo owners, even if they rely on services of professional carriers, are […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 13, 2014 by: Wiley Rein LLP Applying Massachusetts law, the Superior Court of Massachusetts has held that an insurer is not required to demonstrate prejudice from a late notice under a claims-made-and-reported policy.  Catlin Specialty Ins. Co. v. Am. Superconductor Corp., 2014 WL 840693 (Mass. Super. Jan. 29, 2014). The insurer issued claims-made […]

Source: http://www.ibamag.com, March 14, 2014 Editor’s note: In the fifth and final installment of this week’s In Focus series on environmental insurance, David Brereton, EIL Program Manager at Denver-based Freberg Environmental Insurance, provided the following case studies displaying the variety of businesses that are now seeing the need for environmental coverage. Underwriters are often asked […]

Source: http://www.southwestjournal.com, March 12, 2014 By: Dylan Thomas Apartment owners are in a lawsuit with the city over pumping of groundwater The owners of an Uptown apartment building sued by the city in December for illegal groundwater discharge on March 6 filed suit against three firms that provided engineering and design services for the project. […]

Source: http://www.cullmantimes.com, March 14, 2014 By: Tiffeny Owens A lawsuit brought by seven Hanceville landowners against Hanceville Water Works and Sewer Board and the companies hired to run the waste water treatment plant is set to go to trial next month. The property owners are suing over the alleged repeated dumping of raw sewage on […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, March 12, 2014 Although most insurers providing professional liability insurance for architects and engineers sought to raise rates last year, the size of the increases generally failed to meet their expectations. Nevertheless, nearly all leading insurers offering this specialty coverage did see premium growth in 2014 mainly from new business, an improving economy […]

Source: http://www.ibamag.com, March 13, 2014 By: Brian Anderson Nearly every commercial client with a fixed facility carries some level of environmental risk, making them all strong candidates for Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) coverage. As most businesses don’t currently have this coverage, this is a big opportunity for agents. Standard EIL coverage addresses both on- and […]