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February 7, 2022

Monroe School District offers $34M in toxic exposure case

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 […]

October 26, 2020

Weed Elementary building closed after discovery of dangerous black mold

Source: https://www.mtshastanews.com/, October 23, 2020 By: Skye Kinkade A severe infestation of black mold that’s the result of water damage from a snowstorm last year is prompting an emergency at Weed Elementary School. The building that houses the office, library, and two special day classrooms is being evacuated and sealed off, said principal/superintendent Jon Ray. […]

October 20, 2020

South Carolina School District Faces $3M in Repairs from Mold Damage

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, October 20, 2020 Officials for a South Carolina school district say it could cost up to $3 million to fix damage and prevent the future spread of mold that was discovered in two buildings. Construction workers found the mold from high water activity inside the walls of a Beaufort County elementary school and […]

September 1, 2020

Reopened Schools Find Health Risks in Water After Covid-19 Lockdowns

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, August 27, 2020 By: Max Horberry The new coronavirus is not the only illness that teachers, students, parents and staff will have to worry about as some schools attempt to reopen this fall. Legionella could lurk in the water supplies of school buildings, and some measures to keep people in schools safe from coronavirus […]

March 26, 2020

Who Pays When Remediation Goes Wrong? A Federal Court’s Evaluation of Contractor Liability

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 […]

September 3, 2019

California Supreme Court rules late notice no bar to insurance claims

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com, August 30, 2019 By: Judy Greenwald In what is described as a pro-policyholder ruling, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that it is a fundamental policy that California policyholders can proceed with their claims even if they give late notice, unless their insurer can prove it substantially prejudices it. Read more.

June 21, 2019

In rural Alaska, school districts deal with a legacy of unaddressed contamination

Source: https://www.ktoo.org, June 19, 2019 By: Rashah McChesney There are thousands of open contaminated sites in Alaska.  Typically, when one is discovered, it’s up to the landowner — or the person responsible for making the mess — to clean it up.  But there are dozens of sites where this process has broken down — where it isn’t […]

June 7, 2019

IU’s lawyers say the university isn’t contractually obligated to keep its rooms clean

Source: https://www.idsnews.com, April 28, 2019 By: Lexi Haskell Here’s what else you’ve missed with the lawsuit. IU is not contractually obligated to provide clean, safe or mold-free housing to its students, attorneys representing the university’s Board of Trustees have argued in a court filing. More than 20 IU students who lived on the Bloomington campus […]

May 17, 2019

A dangerous delay

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com, May 16, 2019 By: Jenn Abelson, Amy Brittain and Sarah Larimer The University of Maryland waited 18 days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark. It had been six days since Olivia Shea Paregol walked out of the University of Maryland […]

May 16, 2019

Frantic parents fear for kids after radioactive contamination found at Ohio middle school

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com, May 16, 2019 By: Safia Samee Ali “It’s so scary that my child has been exposed to this because I have no idea how it’s going to affect him,” one mother said. Ashley Day has always worried about the health risks of living a few miles from a defunct nuclear power plant in […]

January 9, 2019

Millbrook students ‘home’ after months-long mold cleanup, repairs

Source: https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com, January 9, 2018 By: Nina Schutzman A Millbrook district elementary school is open again, nearly four months after shutting down for mold remediation and renovations. And for Elm Drive Elementary’s 160-plus students, the re-opening of their building brought a fresh start and a homecoming. Elm Drive had been closed since September. While remediation and […]

November 28, 2018

Mercer University cleaning up hazardous site

Source: https://www.13wmaz.com, November 28, 2018 By: Avery Braxton The Mercer University Triangle is considered a hazardous site by the Environmental Protection Division. An area frequented by Mercer University students and Bibb County residents has been considered a hazardous site for years. The “Mercer University Triangle” lies right alongside Mercer Village and focused primarily where Montpelier […]

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