Source: https://www.fox29.com/, April 25, 2022 By: Monica Evans A Lehigh Valley Borough is suing nearly 2 dozen companies that make foam used to put out fires because officials in the borough say that the toxic chemicals found in the foam were also found in its water supply. The Borough of Emmaus is alleging that two […]

Source: https://grist.org/, April 25, 2022 By: Yvette Cabrera The state of New Jersey wants two companies accused of polluting the groundwater in a Bergen County borough to answer a question: what’s the value of a glass of clean drinking water? That question was posed in the form of a civil suit filed earlier this month, […]

Source: https://admin.mauinow.com/, March 23, 2022 The state Department of Health asked individuals who stayed at a specific Hilton hotel in Waikīkī within the last couple weeks to be on alert for a type of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease, according to a press release today. DOH also asked public health agencies across the US Mainland to […]

Source: https://www.darientimes.com/, February 6, 2022 The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The Seattle Times reports the district proposed the settlement in November under court seal, preventing the public from seeing the offer, but the $34 million figure appears […]

Source: https://constructionexec.com/, January 4, 2022 By: Janice Greenberg Construction professionals undoubtedly engage in a call or email conversation at least once a year with their insurance broker to discuss the company’s insurance coverages. Typically, these conversations center around whether to renew the company’s existing policies with its current insurance carriers or purchase policies from new […]

Source: Birmingham News, January 2, 2022\ Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Janice Williams thought something was dead near her Morgan County home based on the smell, but she couldn’t decide what it was. “I thought the dogs might have killed an armadillo. I searched the yard for an armadillo, but then I found out where the smell […]

Source: https://www.wkow.com/, December 2, 2021 By: Tony Galli A Madison homeowner is resisting state demands for additional payments to address his property’s environmental contamination as the result of the practices of a previous owner. “I had no idea there was a problem,” Ken Koeppler says of his knowledge of the property’s condition at the time […]

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/, October 25, 2021 By: Connor Sheets, Laura J. Nelson and Anita Chabria Six years ago, a ruptured oil pipeline in Santa Barbara County sent 140,000 gallons of crude oil gushing onto the sands of Refugio State Beach. The company that owned the pipeline survived the onslaught of lost revenue and lawsuits that followed, […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, October 5, 2021 By: Melanie A. McDonald, Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C. Applying Louisiana law, a recent federal court decision exemplifies why policyholders should thoroughly read claims-made policies to understand when notice is due to insurers and truthfully complete policy applications. In Admiral Insurance Company v. Dual Trucking, Inc.,1 the Court determined the insurer, […]

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, October 2, 2021 Crews raced Sunday to contain the damage from a major oil spill off the Orange County coast that left crude spoiling beaches, killing fish and birds and threatening local wetlands. The spill, first reported Saturday, originated from a pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach connected to an offshore oil […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, July 14, 2021 A Louisiana Court of Appeals (Fourth Circuit) (“Court”) addressed an insurance coverage issue arising out of contamination associated with a landfill. See The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality v. Tidewater Landfill, LLC & The Louisiana Fruit Company , et al., 2021 WL 1132241. The question addressed was whether a pollution exclusion provision […]

Source: https://minnesota-cbslocal-com.cdn.ampproject.org/, July 10, 2021 Minnesota health officials have traced back two cases of Legionnaires’ disease to a hotel in Albert Lea. Two people from unrelated groups were hospitalized after they spent time in the pool and hot tub area of the hotel in the last weekend of June. One person has been discharged, while […]