Although your client may believe that since “I’ve never had a claim for a pollution incident or claim, I see no value in pollution insurance,” that is far from reality.  As your client’s trusted insurance adviser, your reply should be: Environmental claims are catastrophic type claims – low frequency, high severity.  Therefore, they don’t happen […]

Source: The Charleston Gazette, January 7, 2013 By: Jim Balow A 12-year-old lawsuit against the designers of Charleston’s ill-fated composting facility has finally been settled, City Council members learned Monday. O’Brien & Gere, the New York-based engineers that designed the former sewage sludge composting facility in North Charleston, agreed to settle the city’s suit for […]

Source: Beazley, A&E Reporter, Volume 7, Issue 3 – Fall 2012 In a mixed result for design professionals, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana issued an amended final decision following a bench trial with respect to a breach of contract claim filed by a corporate hotel owner (“SAMS”) against an […]

Source: South Florida Business Journal, December 4, 2012 By: Paul Brinkmann One of South Florida’s best-known plaintiffs firms, Coral Gables-based Colson Hicks Eidson, is among the first to handle a lawsuit connected to the Oct. 10 Miami Dade College parking garage collapse in Doral. Colson Hicks attorney Ervin Gonzalez, is representing Migdalia Lopez, widow of […]

Source: The Times-Picayne Greater New Orleans, November 13, 2012 By: Drew Broach Jefferson Parish has largely blamed the architectural firm Wisznia Associates for the Jefferson Performing Arts Center boondoggle. Now the parish has settled its lawsuit against the company for $1.3 million, although Wisznia did not admit liability. That $1.3 million is less than the […]

Source: http://www.tampabay.com, November 6, 2012 By: Craig Pittman The company that designed Tampa Bay Water’s cracked reservoir deserves $9.2 million in attorneys’ fees and $10.8 million in expenses for defending itself against the utility’s unsuccessful lawsuit, the federal judge overseeing the case ruled. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore called the fees “extraordinary” but explained in […]

Source: http://www.mineweb.com, November 6, 2012 By: Dorothy Kosich Facing liquidity concerns and a weaker rare earths market, Molycorp is suing the engineering firm it considers responsible for delays and cost overruns at its flagship Mountain Pass facility expansion. U.S. rare earths producer Molycorp has sued the engineering firm formerly in charge of designing the chemical […]

Source: Inforum, May 10, 2012 By: Marino Eccher 3 building contractors to go into court this week North Dakota State University’s lawsuit against three contractors over the collapse of Minard Hall finally made its way into the Cass County District Court this week. The lawsuit, which was served in December, claims the contractors failed to […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, April 23, 2012 By Scott Judy After a federal jury took just four hours to rule that HDR Engineering’s design did not cause the cracks at Tampa Bay Water’s six-year-old reservoir, the utility was left with nothing for its gamble on a $30-million settlement offer but an estimated $24 million in legal bills. […]

Source: http://chicago.cbslocal.com, March 30, 2012 Just a few months after opening its new main hospital building with much fanfare, Rush University Medical Center is suing the architect and engineer that developed it. As WBBM Newsradio’s Kris Kridel reports, the hospital is suing its architectural firm, Perkins & Will, and its engineering firm, Environmental Systems Design, Crain’s […]

Source: ENR Southeast, March 21, 2012 By: Scott Judy As the case of Tampa Bay Water v. HDR Engineering begins, a key trial expert says he still has no official opinion about the cause of the disputed cracking. By all accounts, Dr. David Carrier III is a preeminent geotechnical expert on soil science. A paper […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, October 19, 2011 By: James T. Parsons Concrete pier caps supporting three bridges on the new Intercounty Connector (ICC) in Maryland may have to be rebuilt following the discovery of cracks by Maryland State Highway Administration (MSHA) inspectors. According to a project spokesman, 40 to 50 cracks ranging from .005 to .035 in wide, and […]