Holly Wald was tired of running her family to the doctor with runny noses and other tell-tale signs of mold-related illness. When the Walds remodeled their basement four years ago, they found cement walls spotted with black mold.

When the floodwaters from Hurricane Isabel inundated the Belle View condominium complex in September 2003, causing nearly $6 million in damage, condo owner Stephen Snell had to flee to a nearby motel for two weeks because the water and mold caused him to have serious breathing problems.

Orange County, Fla. -- The University of Central Florida is spending nearly $19 million on a new engineering building. But now, someone has to engineer a solution to a real problem. Mold has infested the project.

CINCINNATI — A trial court properly allowed an insurance carrier's expert structural engineer to testify to the likelihood that a leaky roof led to moisture and mold growth, the 6th Circuit held May 5 in affirming a verdict for the carrier in a coverage suit.

In 1984, dozens of employees of a hospital in Quebec, Canada were felled with a mysterious, totally debilitating illness. The affliction struck nurses, orderlies and secretaries alike. They suffered from disabling fatigue, muscle and joint pain, sore throats, and insomnia.