Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, February 24, 2014 Officials investigating a carbon monoxide leak at a New York mall are concentrating on the heating system of a restaurant there. A manager at Legal Sea Foods restaurant died and more than two dozen others were sent to hospitals following the leak last Saturday at the Walt Whitman Shops in […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, February 21, 2014 By: Daniel Geiger, Crain’s New York Business For years, construction executives and real estate developers have insisted that an arcane New York state law that foists the liability for construction accidents solely on the builder has dramatically driven up the cost of construction insurance and even hurt worker safety. Now […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, February 20, 2014 By: Jessica L. Duggan, Kevin P. Kamraczewski and Stephen M. Fields After looking at numerous investment opportunities, you bite the bullet, assemble a syndicate of lenders and close on a leveraged buyout transaction resulting in control of the operating company target through the use of a holding company. You were […]

Source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com, February 20, 2014 Cochrane’s Dairy and its current owner, Barry Cochrane, are facing five charges under the Fisheries Act for allegedly dumping waste water from the dairy plant into the Castor River in Russell, Ont., southeast of Ottawa. The Castor River flows into the South Nation River, which flows into the Ottawa River. […]

Read here about contaminants being removed from a NY Superfund site in New York.

Source: http://www.normantranscript.com, February 21, 2014 Buy: M. Scott Carter Seven students died at Plaza Towers on May 20 When the storm came, seven students in the Plaza Towers third-grade center sheltered in the hall. At Briarwood, the students and teachers thought the school building would protect them. Then the tornado hit, and the schools fell. […]

Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com, February 19, 2014 By: Dermot Cole The legal and administrative fight over pollution near the Flint Hills refinery [3] is poised to spread, just like the solvent sulfolane in the groundwater that has traveled three miles from the North Pole refinery. While one confrontation centers on how much the owner and the former owner would be […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, February 19, 2014 By: Cameron F. Field & Leah Hurtgen Ziemba, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Two Wisconsin Court of Appeals panels recently considered whether “manure” and “septage” fall under pollution exclusion clauses of insurance policies. One decision held that manure is not a pollutant, and insured a farmer after a manure application contaminated a neighbor’s well, […]

Source: http://www.star-telegram.com, February 20, 2014 By: Elizabeth Campbell The city is suing a concrete company over what it says is faulty construction work on some recently built streets and water lines in the Villages of Woodland Springs subdivision in far north Fort Worth. The suit against Site Concrete was filed late Tuesday in Tarrant County […]

Source: http://kunc.org, February 18, 2014 By: Bente Birkeland Controversy over the Colorado Department of Transportation’s first public private partnership along U.S. 36 has risen in recent weeks. On Wednesday a group of community activists plans to file a lawsuit to try and slow it down. The nonprofit Drive SunShine Institute is behind the lawsuit and […]

Source: Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), February 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com National Lead, now known as NL Industries, has until Monday to notify the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it intends to comply with an order to begin the $79 million cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site. The EPA order, signed Jan. 30, covers […]

Read here about why residents living near a Missouri landfill are raising money for radiation monitors.