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July 17, 2017

Settlement reached between Yeager, engineering firm in connection with hillside collapse

Source: http://wvmetronews.com, July 13, 2017 By: Carrie Hodousek Charleston’s Yeager Airport has entered into a partial settlement with an engineering firm it sued following the 2015 hillside collapse at the end of the airport’s main runway. Yeager’s Resolution Committee announced Thursday it has settled with Triad Engineering, Inc. for $900,000. “It releases the officers and […]

July 12, 2017

Legionnaires Outbreak at Graceland Hotel

Read here about 5 people who have been diagnosed with Legionnaires disease after stay at The Guest House at Graceland.

July 5, 2017

District Court Rules “Professional Services” Exclusion means Professional Services

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 29, 2017 By: R. Bruce Wallace, Nexsen Pruet Recently, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina granted judgment in favor of an insurance carrier, finding the carrier did not owe a duty of defense or a duty to indemnify the insured in an underlying professional malpractice claim. In […]

June 30, 2017

County, architectural firm reach settlement following errors at Talon, judicial center

Source: http://www.meadvilletribune.com, June 29, 2017 By: Keith Gushard Crawford County has reached a financial settlement with its architectural firm for errors involving additional site work costs at the former Talon Inc. property and the county having to buy a high density file storage system for the new judicial center. County commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved an […]

June 27, 2017

Condo liability law loosened

Source: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com, June 25, 2017 By: Brooks Johnson A homeowners association is suing the developer, builder and manager of the Superior Vista condominiums, among others, claiming the Mesaba Avenue complex was not properly built and ought to be repaired under warranty. “Many areas of the building were not built to applicable building code, industry standard […]

June 27, 2017

Dakota Access builder bungling Ohio pipe

Source: http://www.journalgazette.net, June 25, 2017 By: Catherine Traywick Energy Transfer Partners is making a mess of its biggest project since the Dakota Access pipeline. Construction of the $4.2 billion Rover natural gas line has caused seven industrial spills, polluted fragile Ohio wetlands and angered local farmers. The company owes $1.5 million in restitution after demolishing a […]

June 22, 2017

What turned Ellerbee Creek orange?

Source: http://www.heraldsun.com, June 21, 2017 By: Virginia Bridges City officials think the substance that turned part of Ellerbee Creek an oily orange last week may have been due to a city contractor’s mistake. A city investigation found a city contractor improperly rerouted water meant to go to the city’s sanitary sewer system to a stormwater […]

June 8, 2017

The New York disaster that never happened: How one phone call from an architecture STUDENT saved the 915ft Citigroup skyscraper from crashing onto Manhattan during a hurricane

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk, April 21, 2014 By: James Nye New York City authorities and 2,500 Red Cross members prepared for the Citigroup Center to come crashing down on Manhattan in the summer of 1978 A catastrophic design flaw was uncovered when an architecture student phoned the building’s chief engineer He discovered that the building could not […]

May 18, 2017

Appeals court finds C.B. Engineering responsible in dispute over condemned Lake St. Louis home

Source: http://stlrecord.com/, May 17, 2017 By: Sam Knef A dispute between a homebuilder and engineering firm over who was to blame for a newly constructed home being condemned shortly after the owners moved in has been decided by the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District. In a decision handed down May 9, the appeals panel […]

May 10, 2017

Law firm says elevated levels of radioactivity found in four more Bridgeton homes

Source: http://www.stltoday.com, May 9,2 017 By: Bryce Gray Months after a Bridgeton couple filed a lawsuit alleging that household dust and soil from their property contained elevated levels of radioactivity, the plaintiffs’ law firm said Monday that tests of four more homes show similar contamination. All homes are about a half mile south of the […]

April 28, 2017

Insurer alleges improper installation of sprinkler system in lawsuit over fire that destroyed Pa. building

Source: http://www.securityinfowatch.com, April 26, 2017 By: Keith Gushard A $5.2 million civil lawsuit has been filed in Crawford County Court of Common Pleas in connection with a fire that gutted the Titusville Towne Square building more than two years ago. The 17-count lawsuit has been filed by Erie Insurance Exchange, as it was the insurance […]

April 25, 2017

EPA, Beech-Nut to talk about aesbestos pile in Canajoharie

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, April 24, 2017 By: Larry Rulison Discussion will focus on asbestos found at the former food plant Beech-Nut will be sitting down with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency soon to go over an EPA administrative order that it clean up the asbestos mess at its former Canajoharie plant. Beech-Nut had until Friday to […]

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