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Pollution Legal Liability Insurance More Valuable as a Result of High Court Ruling

Green Building Law Update

Insurance companies cannot recover environmental cleanup costs paid to their insured under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, commonly known as Superfund, from another Potentially Responsible Party ( unless their insured had first pursued a separate claim to recover the cleanup costs from that PRP).

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Insurance expert: Managing green liability risk not so different from 'normal' risk mitigation

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Worries about legal liability have long dogged the sustainable building movement, but insurance expert Karen Erger (Locton Companies) and attorney Eric Singer (Ice Miller LLP) say sustainability lawsuits are caused by the same types of issues that have always prompted clients to sue AEC firms. read more. "The

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The UK Sets the Scene for Mandatory ESG Laws in the Western World

Green Building Law Update

These new laws are the Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022 and the Limited Liability Partnerships (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022. the principal climate-related risks and opportunities arising in connection with the company’s operations, and.

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From Love Canal to a New Option for a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment

Green Building Law Update

EPA’s direct final rule allowing the use of the new ASTM E1527-13 “Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process” to satisfy the requirements for conducting “all appropriate inquiries” to qualify for liability protections. The EPA rule is at [link].

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Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts Properly Drafted

Green Building Law Update

The methodology was admittedly unscientific, if only in that the sample was too small given the large number of sustainable building being erected across the country. More than 60% of that subset was in jurisdictions with a mandatory green building law creating liability for the architect among others.

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Construction Law – April 2025

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Legal terms explained Tse Wei Lim and Yun Wen Soh of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP explain what decennial liability means. Only claims against bodies subject to a relevant liability will succeed, the TCC has ruled.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Environmental Protection Agency as satisfying its All Appropriate Inquiry rule to obtain protections from liability under CERCLA, the federal Superfund law, something that is expected to happen by rulemaking at some point in 2022. Liability from old dry cleaners in retail sites that are beyond the boundaries of the “subject property” (.

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