{"id":2518,"date":"2019-11-25T20:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:34:57","slug":"record-number-of-legionnaires-cases-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/record-number-of-legionnaires-cases-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Number of Legionnaires Cases in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>environmental Strategist, between the lines:<\/strong>\u00a0 As the article below points out there has been an eight-fold increase in the number of Legionnaires cases over the last two decades.\u00a0 The hotbeds for Legionnaires are hot tubs, hotels, hospitals.\u00a0 The \u201cexperts\u201d point to several factors for the explosion of cases in the US, i.e. decaying infrastructure, an aging population, green buildings, water conservation efforts, climate change and increased testing.<\/p>\n<p>Legionnaires Disease is a bacteria that can create an environmental liability for those using central air conditioning systems, fountains, room-air humidifiers, ice-making machines,\u00a0 whirlpool spas,\u00a0water heating tanks &amp;\u00a0systems, showers, swimming pools, misting\u00a0systems typically found in grocery-store produce sections, cooling towers used in industrial cooling systems, evaporative coolers,\u00a0nebulizers,\u00a0humidifiers, windshield washers, physical therapy equipment\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses that dealing with Legionnaires can be very expensive and it\u2019s anticipated the number of Legionnaires cases will continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Besides property owners experiencing expensive cleanups, business interruption, third party bodily injury, third party property damage, reputational damage\u2026, who else gets named in Legionnaire lawsuits?\u00a0 Vendors who can impact water such as plumbers, HVAC contractors, Refrigeration contractors\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>As your client\u2019s professional risk manager, you need to make sure clients have an environmental financial assurance plan to address their exposure to Legionnaires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pollution insurance can protect your insureds from Legionnaires liabilities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/sc-hlth-legionnaires-1113-20191108-fkgvdm2nnratfe2uuxavmsasqe-story.html\">https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/sc-hlth-legionnaires-1113-20191108-fkgvdm2nnratfe2uuxavmsasqe-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>environmental Strategist, between the lines:\u00a0 As the article below points out there has been an eight-fold increase in the number of Legionnaires cases over the last two decades.\u00a0 The hotbeds for Legionnaires are hot tubs, hotels, hospitals.\u00a0 The \u201cexperts\u201d point to several factors for the explosion of cases in the US, i.e. decaying infrastructure, an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/record-number-of-legionnaires-cases-in-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record Number of Legionnaires Cases in 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-featured","category-risk","category-webinars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}