Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 1, 2014 By: A. Kate Margolis, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP One of the most valuable assets a business owns is its insurance coverage. The goal when purchasing liability insurance—and regularly paying insurance premiums—is to have coverage when, for example, your business is faced with a potentially devastating lawsuit by a third […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 1, 2014 By: Slates C. Veazey, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Within the past four months, two courts interpreting Mississippi law have held that an additional-insured endorsement to a subcontractor’s commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy did not obligate the insurer to defend and/or indemnify a general contractor additional insured for liability […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 7, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Kanawha-Charleston Health Department officials hope a phone survey will provide a “snapshot” of the psychological, social and economic effects from the Freedom Industries chemical leak. Officials originally hoped to study affected areas in nine counties but had to scale back the study to focus […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Vernon battery recycler may not resume lead smelting until its furnaces can operate in compliance with tough new air district rules on arsenic emissions. The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s hearing board ruled Tuesday that Exide Technologies, which is accused of endangering the […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 9, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Two public agencies announced plans Tuesday to either file or join legal actions related to the Freedom Industries chemical leak. One of those agencies, the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, announced it would join the city of Charleston in any lawsuit it files related to the […]

Source: http://centraljersey.com, April 9, 2014 Court settlement paves the way for government to be reimbursed Federal and state governments will get back some of the money paid to clean up a contaminated site in downtown Manville starting more than 12 years ago. The federal Environmental Protection Agency says a legal settlement requires a national firm […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 31, 2014 By: Barclay Richard Nicholson, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP The “sudden and accidental” discharge exception to the pollution exclusion provision of most environmental insurance policies has been the subject of hundreds of environmental coverage decisions throughout the years, mainly because “sudden and accidental” is not defined in the policy. Recent decisions […]

Source: http://newjerseyhills.com, April 10, 2014 By: Brian Woods The township is facing legal action as a fourth party defendant in a case that involves an underground oil tank that allegedly leaked and contaminated surrounding soil. According to the case files, the plaintiff, John and Christina Price, as well as third party plaintiff, ANCO Environmental Services […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 1, 2014 By: Gabrielle Guthrie, Lander & Rogers The legal risk When hiring contractors, or bringing together a project team, the first question is unlikely to be: who is liable if there is an environmental breach or harm to the environment? Environmental risks are often poorly understood or simply assumed to be the same […]

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