Source: http://www.latimes.com, April 17, 2017 By: Ralph Vartabedian Design flaws, construction shortcomings and maintenance errors caused the Oroville Dam spillway to break apart in February, according to an independent analysis by Robert Bea for the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley. Bea, a co-founder of the center and retired civil engineering professor, found […]

Source: https://therealdeal.com, April 17, 2017 By: Francisco Alvarado An Aventura-based architecture firm allegedly left McKafka Development Group hanging, delaying construction on its 90-unit high-rise called the Crimson in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, according to a lawsuit. McKafka, through its limited liability company Alpine Estates, accuses International Design Engineering and Architecture, or I.D.E.A. for short, of breaching […]

Source: https://therealdeal.com, March 1, 2017 By: Francisco Alvarado Property at 2121 N. Bayshore Drive was affected by leaky HVAC, residents say The condominium board at an older building in Edgewater is suing the engineering firm that designed the HVAC system at the property, alleging that the system caused extensive damage to the building. In a […]

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org, February 8, 2017 By: Lisa Sorg At 1,100 acres, Sutton Lake is home to schools of largemouth bass, catfish and crappie. However, the lake also contains high levels of selenium, both in the surface water and in muscles of fish, a consequence of years of coal ash discharge from Duke Energy power plant near […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, June 30, 2016 By: Judy Greenwald Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. units are obligated to indemnify an engineering company in connection with an industrial accident at a nuclear power plant that killed one worker and injured several others, says a federal appeals court, in partially reversing a lower court ruling. The U.S. Court […]

Source: https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com, March 19, 2016 By: Tim Gannon The Village of Greenport has filed a lawsuit against the engineering firm that designed its $5.8 million power plant upgrade. The lawsuit filed Feb. 2 seeks more than $10 million in damages from Genesys Engineering and claims the Pelham-based company was negligent, breached agreements and didn’t provide certain services. Village officials […]

Source: http://www.marylandaccidentlawblog.com, December 3, 2007 By: Lebowitz & Mzhen Anne Arundel resident Gayle K. Queen filed a class action lawsuit against power company Constellation Energy last week. Constellation Energy is the largest power company in Maryland. Queen says her husband David died of kidney failure in 2006 because he drank water with traces of arsenic, […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 25, 2013 By: Scott Hennigh, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Typically an architect is liable under its contract to the owner if it negligently creates a defective design. But whether an architect is liable for the effects of a defective design on parties with whom it has no contract has traditionally been […]

Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com, August 8, 2012 By: Patrick Danner Almost four years to the day an explosion at Valero Energy Corp.’s Houston refinery led to the release of dangerous sulfur compounds, the company has sued four companies over the incident. A Valero partnership claims in lawsuit filed Thursday that the Aug. 4, 2008, incident was the […]

Read here about a Tennessee Valley Authority Contractor that agreed to pay over $6 million to the federal government to settle a fraud investigation.

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that is being held liable for polluting the Conemaugh River.

Source: Daily Star, The (Oneonta, NY), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Like Middlefield, Springfield and Otsego, the town of Cherry Valley is moving to ban drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within its borders. The town’s zoning commission will hold a public hearing Monday on a draft land-use law that prohibits new drilling […]