The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”) has been a prodigious generator of litigation for decades. First, the government sought to compel potentially responsible parties (“PRPs”) to clean up contaminated sites. Then, those PRPs who were found liable or who settled with the government sought contribution from other PRPs. Now, even after these […]

Source: https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/, January 16, 2020 By: Greg Meckbach A British Columbia court ruling in favour of Intact Insurance Company and Economical Mutual Insurance Company is now final. A Vancouver-based dry cleaners that wanted to make a pollution-related claim with the two insurers, under commercial general liability policies, cannot appeal the coverage dispute to the Supreme […]

Source: https://vtdigger.org/, November 4, 2019 By: Elizabeth Gribkoff State environmental officials are looking to remediate contamination from a dry cleaning chemical found in elevated levels in 14 Burlington homes before winter. At a joint fiscal committee meeting on Monday, lawmakers approved a request from the Department of Environmental Conservation to spend up to $150,000 from […]

Source: https://thepressgroup.net/, November 8, 2019 By: Michael Olohan/span> A two-story office building built on the site of a former dry cleaner at 137 Broadway was knocked down recently as the first step in a long-term site remediation plan put into motion by the State Department of Environmental Protection. “It’s PCE (perchlorethylene) contamination in shallow ground […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com, April 19, 2019 By: Brian Nearing Toxic chemicals will be dug out of two vacant former dry cleaners sites in Schenectady and Watervliet, under plans announced by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The property around the former Admiral Cleaners, 617 19th St., Watervliet, and the former Kenwood Cleaners, 445 Duane Ave., Schenectady, […]

Source: http://www.wcax.com, February 27, 2018 By: Taylor Young A Shelburne business owner is warning others after he says he unknowingly purchased property contaminated with PCE. “It’s just been challenging,” said Sean Ryan, the owner of Elegant Floors. From 1996 to 2000, a dry cleaning business occupied his building. Ryan has a black plastic bag taped […]

Source: Modesto Bee (CA), January 14, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com In a ruling with implications for cities across the United States, appellate justices this week rejected Modesto’s request to reinstate a $75 million judgment against a producer of toxic dry cleaning chemicals. However, the ruling also paves the way for a new trial under conditions […]

Source: http://www.constructionrisk.com, August 2017 By: Kent Holland Where lead-based paint was ingested by a tenant’s child, the tenant sued her landlord for injuries allegedly sustained by the child. The landlord tendered the claim to its commercial general liability (CGL) insurer who, instead of defending the case, filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a determination that […]

Source: http://www.marinij.com, February 11, 2016 By: Stephanie Weldy Marinwood community members gathered this week to call for a faster, more aggressive approach to cleaning up contaminants from a former dry cleaner at Marinwood Plaza. Some want more teeth in the cleanup proposal headed to regulators; many just want cleanup to get underway as soon as […]

Source: http://www.newsday.com, February 12, 2016 By: Lauren R. Harrison The New York Department of Environmental Conservation plans to hold a public meeting in Commack to discuss a dry cleaners listed as a “significant threat” to public health or the environment in the state registry of inactive hazardous waste sites. State DEC officials plan to hold […]

Source: http://www.wausaudailyherald.com, September 18, 2015 By: Nora G. Hertel It doesn’t look like much is happening on the contaminated site of an old dry cleaner on Wausau’s Second Avenue. But machines have been working for the past year to clear lingering chemicals there, and neighbors will clear some overgrown foliage on the plot this weekend. The city’s Community Development Authority […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, March 12, 2013 By: Andrea Cortland, Cozen O’Connor On February 15, 2013 a Pennsylvania federal district court held that the shipment of defective drywall from China to the United States constituted one “occurrence” for purposes of insurance coverage, and the occurrence took place when the damage caused by the drywall manifested itself in […]