All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2011 // A White House commission probing BP’s massive oil spill has called for an overhaul of a regulatory system that was “entirely unprepared” for disaster and outlined stringent, new oversight, a plan sure to...
Jan 24 2011 // Claims Chief“I’m absolutely neutral. I’m not BP. I’m trying to run this facility as best I can.” —Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, the man in charge of the Gulf Coast Clams Facility for the BP oil...
Jan 24 2011 // A White House panel probing BP’s massive oil spill has called for an overhaul of a regulatory system that was “entirely unprepared” for disaster and outlined stringent, new oversight, a plan sure to face...
Jan 14 2011 // Inland marine insurers now have access to new policy forms designed for insuring property losses to renewable energy generating equipment connected or adjacent to buildings. These new forms were created by the American...
Jan 12 2011 // The administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill claims fund has promised fairness and speed in compensating victims, but angry fishermen and business owners are complaining that they’re still not getting what...
Jan 11 2011 // Incoming Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says he will hold nothing back to make sure the state and its citizens are compensated for all losses because of last year’s massive BP oil spill.Strange said he will...
Jan 11 2011 // White House panel probing BP’s massive oil spill called for an overhaul of a regulatory system that was “entirely unprepared” for disaster and outlined stringent, new oversight, a plan sure to face...
Jan 10 2011 // The world’s top three insurance brokers have joined reinsurer Munich Re to promote a major expansion in risk coverage for deepwater drilling in the wake of BP’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill last April.Their...
Jan 10 2011 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Jan 10 2011 // The oil industry may be to blame for millions of dollars of damage and lost business along Alabama’s coast but it’s the insurance industry that holds the key to the state’s coastal recovery.This truth is...
Jan 6 2011 // Willis Group Holdings announced the creation of a new facility designed to provide additional underwriting capacity for the oil and gas industry.Willis said it had created the facility “in response to requests from...
Jan 5 2011 // BP and its partners made a series of cost-cutting decisions that ultimately contributed to the oil spill that ravaged the Gulf of Mexico coast over the summer, the White House oil spill commission said Wednesday.In its...
Dec 31 2010 // As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP’s financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more.Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40...
Dec 30 2010 // As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP’s financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more.Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40...
Dec 28 2010 // The administrator of BP Plc’s $20 billion compensation fund has paid $43 million to residents of the U.S Gulf Coast who agree not to sue the company for damages stemming from the nation’s worst offshore oil...
Dec 23 2010 // The top insurance stories in the Southeast in 2010 included several disasters that caused considerable death and destruction in the region and one that didn’t do as much harm as feared.The April 20 blowout of...
Dec 22 2010 // The world’s top three insurance brokers have joined reinsurer Munich Re to promote a major expansion in risk coverage for deepwater drilling in the wake of BP’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill last April.Their...
Dec 21 2010 // A woman was indicted last week in the Eastern District of Louisiana for allegedly filing fraudulent claims for compensation due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other individuals were also charged last week in...
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Dec 17 2010 // New Jersey is moving toward making polluters pay the full cost of cleaning up offshore spills.A bill to remove a cap on liability for oil and other spills into coastal waters was passed by the state Senate on Monday and...