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Water, Water, Everywhere: Surface Water Liability, Jill M. Fraley Feb 2016

Water, Water, Everywhere: Surface Water Liability, Jill M. Fraley

Jill M. Fraley

By 2030 the U.S. will lose around $520 billion annually from its gross domestic product due to flooding. New risks resulting from climate change arise not only from swelling rivers and lakes, but also from stormwater runoff. According to the World Bank, coastal cities risk flooding more from their poor management of surface water than they do from rising sea levels. Surface water liability governs when a landowner is responsible for diverting the flow of water to a neighboring parcel of land. Steep increases in urban flooding will make surface water an enormous source of litigation in the coming decades. …

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Bubbles (Or, Some Reflections On The Basic Laws Of Human Relations), Donald J. Kochan Dec 2014

Bubbles (Or, Some Reflections On The Basic Laws Of Human Relations), Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Very few of us want to live in the absolute isolation of a “bubble.” Most humans cherish the capacity to interact with their external environment even when we know that, at times, such exposure makes us susceptible to all sorts of negative effects ranging from mere annoyance to the contraction of deadly illnesses. Yet, because there are so many positive elements and benefits from that interaction and exposure, we often are willing to take the bitter with the sweet. We tolerate much external exposure to bad things in order to take advantage of the collisions with the good things that …

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Civil Liability Arising From The Buncefield Explosion- Colour Quest Ltd V Total Downstream Uk Plc, Neil J. Foster Dec 2009

Civil Liability Arising From The Buncefield Explosion- Colour Quest Ltd V Total Downstream Uk Plc, Neil J. Foster

Neil J Foster

Explores civil liability arising from the Buncefield refinery explosion.

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