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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The companies that designed and managed the costly Big Dig project will pay Massachusetts more than $400 million to settle litigation over leaky tunnels and a fatal ceiling collapse.
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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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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N has sued   Boston Scientific Corp.BSX.N and Abbott Laboratories Inc.   ABT.N, seeking at least $5.5 billion in damages related to   J&J's failed bid for medical device maker Guidant Corp.
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A memo written by a Big Dig safety officer warning superiors at his construction company that parts of a tunnel ceiling could collapse appears to be a fake, the company said Wednesday.
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U.S. transportation investigators on Tuesday blamed the fatal collapse in Boston's Big Dig tunnel last year on a ceiling adhesive that was not strong enough, and determined contractors and authorities probably could have taken steps to avert the disaster.
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SYDNEY: Australian building products firm James Hardie Industries NV may face criminal charges after a government inquiry found it broke the law by saying it had enough money in a fund to compensate thousands of asbestos victims.
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A company facing criminal charges from a fatal collapse in Boston's "Big Dig" tunnel system last year pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter, setting the stage for a high-profile trial.
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A Â£4.31m damages claim is launched by a firm which failed to secure the Holyrood construction contract.
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Engineers hired to investigate the cause of September&#39;s massive Big Dig tunnel leak have discovered that the project is riddled with hundreds of leaks that are pouring millions of gallons of water into the $14.
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Contractors who worked on the Boston highway project have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the state over a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse and to cover the costs of leaks and design flaws.
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The families of coal miners killed or injured inside Utah's Crandall Canyon mine, where six workers remain entombed, plan to sue two power agencies involved in operations.
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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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Boston&#39;s Big Dig, a new system of freeway tunnels beneath the city and its harbor, has started springing leaks, and Massachusetts officials say San Francisco&#39;s Bechtel Corp.
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Water is accumulating on the underground roof of the Big Dig tunnels, according to Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who said yesterday that his office is trying to determine whether the pools of water pose any threat of damage to the $14.
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The managers of Boston&#39;s Big Dig project said Wednesday they will hold private contractors accountable for leaks found in the tunnel system.
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A group of state, federal, and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff engineers issued a confidential report in 1997 which concluded that miles of Big Dig tunnel walls were waterproofed with products