Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/ A farmer was sued by a neighbor from a nearby residential development alleging that the fumes/odors from the spread of manure and other herbicides/pesticides caused her to suffer migraine headaches and other related health problems. As a result a claim was made for defense and indemnification for the bodily injury lawsuit. Read more.

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/ A claim was made by the owners of a farm producing berries when a windstorm resulted in a large fuel spill affecting the area. As a result clean-up including monitoring and testing of groundwater were required. A claim was made for clean-up costs and business interruption as the processing facility was closed for […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/ A farmer in California had claims for property damage made against him for contracting services when the herbicide being used was over sprayed onto a neighboring farm resulting in damage to the neighbor’s crops. A claim was made for the value of the damaged crops. Read more.

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/ A Midwest producer of soybeans sustained a large ammonia release when the piping on their above-ground storage tank failed causing the release of approximately 5,000 lbs. of liquid ammonia and additional ammonia vapor. As a result clean-up costs were incurred and a number of people at a neighboring facility complained of respiratory issues as […]

Source: https://www.thecooldown.com/, February 26, 2025 By: Zachary Ehrmann Texas ranchers are facing devastating losses after fertilizer contaminated with dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances poisoned their livestock and land. A recent article in The Texas Tribune highlighted growing concerns about these toxic chemicals entering the food supply. What’s happening? Multiple Texas farming families have discovered that their land and animals […]

Source: https://www.jsonline.com/, February 4, 2025 By: Tamia Fowlkes Since the early 2000s, the city and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District have spent millions of dollars cleaning up carcinogenic chemicals from its sewers and waterways. That’s according to an ongoing lawsuit filed by the sewerage district and the City of Milwaukee against Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer now owned […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, January 27, 2025 By: Tom Perkins The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges. It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant […]

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, April 22, 2024 By: Tony Briscoe For years, school district officials had grand designs to revamp the campus of McKinley Elementary in Santa Monica. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District intended to build a two-story building with eight state-of-the-art classrooms and a modernized front office. The project had already been funded by a […]

Source: https://www.law.com/, January 8, 2025 By: Colleen Murphy Illinois Union Insurance, a Chubb subsidiary, was slapped with a federal insurance coverage lawsuit by Shamrock Technologies over the insurer’s refusal to provide coverage for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) remediation. Shamrock alleged that Illinois has a duty to defend and pay for loss under their umbrella […]

Source: https://www.wmbfnews.com/, January 9, 2024 By: Dylan Leatherwood The City of Georgetown and the Georgetown County Water & Sewer District are filing lawsuits over alleged PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in the county’s drinking water. Both lawsuits, filed on Monday, name multiple defendants, most notably Fiber Industries, which owns and operates a textile mill […]

Source: https://wjla.com/, December 18, 2024 By: Scott Taylor Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown just filed a complaint in U.S. District Court saying W. L. Gore & Associates is putting residents’ health at risk with contamination from PFAS. W.L. Gore denies the allegations in the lawsuit and calls itself a responsible manufacturer. Read more.

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, October 28, 2024 By: Dan Reynolds Dan Reynolds, editor-in-chief of Risk & Insurance, recently sat down with Trevor Salman, assistant vice president of environmental underwriting at Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY), to discuss the impact of climate change on insurance exposures and the evolution of environmental underwriting. Read more.