Source: http://www.advisen.com, December 17, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Sixteen former and current residents of one of Los Angeles’ largest apartment complexes have won a $3.5-million verdict over an infestation of bedbugs in their units, according to their lawyer. Park La Brea Apartments, a sprawling complex with more than 4,000 units in the Miracle Mile District, […]

Read here about the third person at an Illinois veterans home who has recently contracted Legionnaires’ disease.

Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com, November 15, 2017 By: Jessie Bekker Five months after an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease was reported at the Rio, the number of confirmed cases of the pneumonia-like bacterial illness among guests has risen to seven, with 29 more cases suspected, the Southern Nevada Health District said Tuesday. Meanwhile, cleaning and testing of the […]

Source: https://www.dairyherd.com, November 15, 2017 By: Tiffany Dowell Lashment When a dairy finds itself a defendant in a lawsuit alleging groundwater contamination due to manure storage policies and application practices, likely one of the first calls made is to their insurance company. One dairy in Washington did just that, only to be told their insurer […]

Read here about Disneyland shutting down cooling towers after a dozen cases of Legionnaires were discovered after most of the patients had visited the park.

Source: http://www.capegazette.com, November 10, 2017 By: Maddy Lauria Company must provide neighbors with clean water State officials say Mountaire Farms’ Millsboro plant has been polluting groundwater and failing to comply with its state permit to dispose of wastewater on nearby farm fields. Health risks because of the pollution require Mountaire to provide its immediate neighbors with […]

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com, November 5, 2017 By: Jon Wertheim It’s a story as old as cities themselves: prosperity comes to town and triggers a building boom. In modern San Francisco, rows of skyscrapers have begun lining the downtown streets and recasting the skyline, monuments to the triumph of the tech sector. Leading this wave, the Millennium […]

Source: http://www.surfky.com, November 8, 2017 By: Tammy Holloway The Hopkins County School District has reached a settlement in its lawsuit against Associated Engineers involving the old Tech Center along Grapevine Road. Nearly six years after construction was halted on the building, the board has reached an agreement with the engineering firm hired by the district […]

Source:https://www.lexology.com, November 7, 2017 By: Sean M. Golden, Vandeventer Black It is common on commercial construction projects for the owner to hire the architect to perform services during construction, in addition to designing the project. Among other things, the architect’s construction phase services will typically consist of periodic observations and evaluations of the progress of […]

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com, October 16, 2017 By: Steven Pitt The question of whether carbon monoxide constitutes a pollutant for purposes of a standard policy pollution exclusion has been mixed among the courts. Whether carbon monoxide constitutes pollution is jurisdiction-specific and depends on whether the jurisdiction adopts a traditional or broadened view of environmental pollution. Exposure to […]

Source: http://www.phillyvoice.com, October 12, 2017 By: Andrew Parent An elementary school in the city’s Germantown section will remain closed Friday as work continues to remove mold found in several of its classrooms. About 80 percent of the remediation work at John B. Kelly Elementary School had been completed as of early Thursday afternoon, according to the […]

Source: http://www.philly.com, October 10, 2017 By: Kristen A. Graham Monroe Township in Gloucester County isn’t the only district coping with a mold problem in one of its schools. Cheltenham, where mold caused years of problems and ultimately forced the school district to shut and rebuild one of its middle schools, has had another mold outbreak. Cheltenham […]