Acknowledgement to Great American A mechanical contractor was hired to perform HVAC repairs at a hospital. No medical procedures were performed during the actual renovation activities and proper measures were taken to ensure proper encapsulation. Despite the controls, one year after completion of the project, the contractor was notified that several aspergillus (a type of […]

Acknowledgement to Great American Legionella was discovered in the water supply of a major metropolitan hospital. An entire wing of the hospital needed to be vacated and patients removed while the water system went through treatment for the legionella. In addition to the remediation costs, several patients sued the hospital claiming bodily injury from exposure to […]

A street and road contractor was hired to apply a sealing coat to a new concrete parking garage next to a hospital. During the application of the sealant, fumes migrated into the hospital’s air intake system. Several patients and hospital staff were overcome by the fumes and became ill. Lawsuits were filed alleging bodily injury […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif. Apr. 17–SANTA CRUZ — The owner of the Brookdale Inn and Spa will pay nearly $17,000 after one of his employees poured chemicals into a storm drain in 2008, killing about 50 endangered steelhead trout as they swam through Clear Creek in the lodge’s famous dining room. But […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By David Brown and Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, January 20, 2007 The Hilton Washington Dulles Airport hotel closed yesterday for the weekend so crews could scrub and sanitize every surface after about 120 employees and guests were sickened by the highly contagious norovirus, which officials say is particularly […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental A five-star hotel in Dubai is testing for Legionnaires’ Disease after three guests contracted the illness. One of the guests of the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, British cricket scorer and broadcaster Bill Frindall, died on Thursday after leaving Dubai. A spokeswoman for the hotel said all tests for the bacterium that causes […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Barbara De Lollis, USA TODAY In the last three months, a European tourist who’d stayed at the luxury EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami died from Legionnaires’ disease, while two other prior guests had fallen ill with the same serious form of pneumonia, according to the Miami Herald. Because all three […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The Associated Press Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:48 p.m. MIAMI – About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one guest died and at least two others became sick since October from Legionnaire’s disease. Health officials […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Oct. 18, 2008 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Bacterium found at Polo Towers By ANNETTE WELLS REVIEW-JOURNAL The Southern Nevada Health District issued a warning to past and present guests of Polo Towers on Friday that a bacterium common in warm water that causes Legionnaires’ disease was discovered in the resort’s […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The hospitalization cost of three U.S. waterborne diseases comes to more than $500 million annually, federal health officials say. Study authors Michael Beach of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says healthcare costs for three common waterborne diseases — Legionnaires’ disease, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis — amount to $539 million annually. Using […]