Mass. to sue Big Dig firms over tunnel accident
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Massachusetts' attorney general will sue companies that worked on the state's troubled $15 billion "Big Dig" roadway project, alleging their negligence caused a ceiling panel to break loose and crush a woman to death this summer, his spokesman said on Monday.
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Inspectors on Thursday quadrupled to 240 the number of possible ceiling bolt problems in a Big Dig tunnel where a woman was crushed by falling concrete, adding to the urgency of the growing debate over who should ensure the safety of the troubled project.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston on   Wednesday said they had charged an electrical contractor who   had worked on the city's troubled "Big Dig" tunnel contract   with overbilling for work on the project.
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system under downtown Boston are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and a new state report suggests tens of millions of dollars
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Gov. Mitt Romney said Monday that tests show more than 1,100 bolt assemblies that used epoxy and more than 300 other areas in a Big Dig connector tunnel where the ceiling collapsed are unreliable.
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A materials failure called "epoxy creep" was a major factor in the Big Dig highway tunnel ceiling panel collapse that killed a woman a year ago, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 16--TEWKSBURY -- A Worcester lawyer who has filed four civil lawsuits against the town on behalf of various residents affected by eminent-domain takings says that more litigation is on the way.
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A lawsuit filed Friday by a former St. Louis Rams player and others seeks millions of dollars in damages from the alleged taping of Rams practices by the New England Patriots before the 2002 Super Bowl.
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Safety repairs to a portion of the Big Dig tunnel where a motorist was killed by falling ceiling panels have been completed and the section will reopen once federal authorities give the OK, Gov. Mitt Romney said Friday.
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Boston's Big Dig crisis deepened Thursday when Gov. Mitt Romney shut down the eastbound lanes of a major highway tunnel after two problem bolts were discovered in the ceiling.
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers warned as far back as six years ago about problems that could cause waterproofing failures, records show.
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The Big Dig is riddled with leaks that are dumping millions of gallons of water into the $14.6 billion tunnel system, according to an engineer hired to investigate the cause of a massive leak in September.
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Officials at a Big Dig construction company have been unable to locate a memo a safety officer said he wrote in 1999 warning his superiors that portions of a tunnel's ceiling could collapse, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Contractors told the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority of Big Dig tunnel leaks 34 months before MTA admitted knowing, the Boston Globe reports.
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The head of the agency that oversees the troubled Big Dig highway project filed suit Monday seeking to prevent the governor from ousting him from his $223,000-a-year job.
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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal yesterday sued insurance brokerage giant Marsh &amp; McLennan Inc. and a unit of the Bermuda-based ACE Ltd. insurance company for alleged illegal commissions in connection with an $80 million state contract.
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The Big Dig - Boston&#39;s newly opened $14.6 billion highway tunnel project - has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds