Source: http://www.fdlreporter.com, September 1, 2016 By: Madeline Zukowski Three gas main leaks in the month of August were caused as construction crews or city personnel hit gas lines. On Aug. 5, city personnel were digging up a water main when they hit a four-inch gas line on Doty Street. Ten people were evacuated from their […]

Source: https://www.casino.org, August 23, 2016 By: Katie Barlowe The City of Somerville, Massachusetts is dropping its legal challenge against Wynn Resorts’ effort to build its $2.1 billion resort, the Wynn Boston Harbor, in the neighboring city of Everett. That means for that, the first time since the casino giant was awarded the sole east Massachusetts […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 22, 2016 By: Anthony Bartell, Adam Budesheim, Louis A. Chiafullo, J. Wylie Donald, Joseph F. Fields and Ira M. Gottlieb, McCarter & English LLP In an important recent decision, New Jersey joined a growing number of states holding that Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) 1986 comprehensive general liability (CGL) policy extends coverage to […]

Source: http://www.cem.va.gov What Do You Need to Consider? Do you perform clearing, grading, or excavation activities? Do you build roads, golf courses, playing fields, homes, or buildings? Are you involved in demolition activities? Will you discharge dredged or fill material to a waterway or wetland? Are you involved in tunnel or pipeline projects? If so, […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, June 17, 2016 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Cincinnati Insurance Co. v. Roy’s Plumbing, Inc., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75958 (W.D.N.Y. June 10, 2016), the United States District Court for the Western District of New York had occasion to consider the application of a pollution exclusion […]

Source: http://kxan.com, June 3, 2016 By: Kevin Schwaller A contractor on a 39-story condo project in downtown Austin is facing a city pollution charge. KXAN News obtained court records detailing a case for “pollutants discharged” against Rogers O’Brien Gilbane, LLC, a contractor on the 5th & West project at the intersection of Fifth Street and […]

Source: http://www.omaha.com, April 22, 2016 By: Emily Nitcher Bill Vance’s house slippers were wet. It was the 74-year-old Bellevue man’s first indication, on Feb. 29, that something was wrong in the basement of his home on Hancock Street. Next came the smell. Two to three inches of murky brown water, including some human waste, had […]

Source: http://www.miamitodaynews.com, March 29, 2016 By: Susan Danseyar The Miami Marlins, Miami-Dade County and City of Miami will share in an insurance payout for a disputed environmental claim over ballpark construction that was settled for far more than had initially been offered. AIG Specialty Insurance Co. has agreed to provide a settlement of $2,910,142.13 to […]

Source: http://capegazette.villagesoup.com, March 17, 2016 By: Ron MacArthur Officials point to sediment control issues The developers of a community near Lewes have been cited for violations of the state’s sediment and stormwater regulations. On Feb. 25, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary David Small issued fines to Oakwood Village at Lewes LLC, […]

Source: http://www.columbian.com, March 18, 2016 By: Dameon Pesanti Cascade Bridge allowed muddy runoff into Burnt Bridge Creek The Department of Ecology fined Vancouver-based contractor Cascade Bridge $33,000 for allowing muddy runoff to pour into Burnt Bridge Creek along a construction site at Interstate 205. Heavy rains caused muddy runoff to flow into Burnt Bridge Creek […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, February 23, 2016 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Nat’l Fire Ins. Co. v. James River Ins., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19076 (D. Ariz. Feb. 16, 2016), the United States District Court for the District of Arizona had occasion to consider the application of a manuscript pollution […]

Source: Orlando Sentinel (FL), February 15, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com KB Home reached a settlement with the Florida Attorney General’s Office involving construction defects, failure to disclosure problems to buyers and denial of home-warranty claims for 1,688 houses across the state. At the core of the state’s three-year investigation were construction defects that led to […]