Source: https://www.mdjonline.com/, November 11, 2021 By: Andrew Steele The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority on Wednesday ratified the settlement of a lawsuit involving Honeywell International in a 7-0 vote that came without a description of the settlement’s details, which were deemed confidential by the parties involved. The airport has, however, been plaintiff since 2017 in a […]

Source: https://www.newsobserver.com/, November 13, 2021 Students and parents who say they suffered brain injuries from exposure to toxic chemicals at a Monroe, Washington, public school were awarded $62 million by a jury this week. The Seattle Times reports that Wednesday’s decision is the second successful lawsuit involving noxious conditions at the school. Read more.  

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 10, 2021 By: Brendan Pierson A U.S. jury on Wednesday ordered Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) to pay $62 million to students and others who say they were exposed to toxic chemicals made by the company’s predecessor, Monsanto Co, in a school building in Washington state. The verdict was the second against Bayer over polychlorinated biphenyls, […]

Source: https://waterfm.com/, November 12, 2021 SL Environmental Law Group has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Water Replenishment District (WRD) against 3M Company, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., and other manufacturers of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) for their involvement in the manufacture and sale of per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have contaminated groundwater […]

Source: https://westfaironline.com/, November 15, 2021 By: Bill Heltzel A Bronxville landlord claims that the village’s ACME supermarket owes $172,482 for contaminating soil under its parking lot next to the store. GA Family-Bronxville Holdings accused ACME of negligence and breach of contract, in a complaint filed Nov. 9 in Westchester Supreme Court, stemming from renovations in […]

Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/, November 10, 2021 By: Carol Thompson Northville Township has filed a lawsuit against the owners of Arbor Hills Landfill, a waste facility under continued scrutiny from state and federal environmental regulators as neighbors complain of a stench wafting from the site on Six Mile Road. Township officials are accusing the landfill operators of dumping contaminated wastewater into […]

Source: https://www.news10.com/, November 11, 2021 By: Sara Rizzo A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit over PFOA contamination in Bennington. The settlement with Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation requires them to pay $34.15 million to affected Bennington residents. “This settlement provides significant compensation and medical monitoring to the Bennington community affected by the PFOA […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 9, 2021 By: Sebastien Malo California’s largest groundwater agency has sued 3M Co, Corteva Inc, the Chemours Co and other manufacturers and sellers of industrial and consumer products over claims they contain a toxic chemical that polluted drinking water in Los Angeles. The Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD), which oversees […]

Source: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/, November 10, 2021 By: Suzanne Russell A week after Middlesex Water Company expanded notices of water contamination exceeding government standards to six towns, the mayors of those towns said they have retained legal counsel to investigate the water company’s actions. The mayors of Carteret, Clark, Edison, Metuchen, South Plainfield and Woodbridge announced Tuesday they […]

Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, November 8, 2021 By: Drew Rothman and Steven G. Bardsley “Help! My legal fees exhausted the limits on my insurance policy. What can I do now?” This is often the lament of contractors embroiled in the litigation of costly claims. Unfortunately, once the terms and conditions are set and the ink is dry […]

Source: https://wfpl.org/, November 8, 2021 By: Ryan Van Velzer and Tom Scheck Back in May of 2020, a food producer was looking at the city of Henderson for a $100 million investment in a city-owned industrial site near the Ohio River. For a city in a rural part of western Kentucky, the business was an […]

Source: https://www.newstimes.com/, November 5, 2021 By: Julia Perkins Joel Barlow High School closed for the second day in a row on Friday as school officials work to address a contaminated water supply caused by a contracted worker accidentally putting some oil into a water tank. A contractor poured about 20 gallons of fuel oil into […]