All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2007 // More than a dozen South Carolina clam farmers who claimed most of their crop was spoiled by an oil spill five years ago have settled a lawsuit with a shipping line and a dredging firm for nearly $1.8 million.Under the...
Oct 18 2007 // Hundreds of new insurance initiatives, including green building credits, drought-protection in developing countries and incentives for investing in renewable energy and carbon emissions trading are being offered to tackle...
Aug 15 2007 // In response to the accelerating development of environmentally friendly energies, products and technologies, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies says it has formed a green energy team of underwriters and loss control...
Aug 6 2007 // In previous articles on this subject I have preached the virtues of watching out for the four “C’s” of insurance protection for the oil and gas operator — contracts, coverages, costs and claims...
Aug 6 2007 // In previous articles on this subject I have preached the virtues of watching out for the four “C’s” of insurance protection for the oil and gas operator — contracts, coverages, costs and claims...
Aug 6 2007 // In previous articles on this subject I have preached the virtues of watching out for the four “C’s” of insurance protection for the oil and gas operator — contracts, coverages, costs and claims...
Aug 6 2007 // In previous articles on this subject I have preached the virtues of watching out for the four “C’s” of insurance protection for the oil and gas operator — contracts, coverages, costs and claims...
Jul 23 2007 // In previous articles on this subject I have preached the virtues of watching out for the four “C’s” of insurance protection for the oil and gas operator — contracts, coverages, costs and claims...
Jul 16 2007 // While his flooded neighbors faced an uncertain future, homeowner Bob Foust was already well under way this week repairing the water damage to his house upstream of the refinery’s oil spill.Not only did his house...
Jul 13 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Oil Insurance Ltd. (OIL) and removed them from CreditWatch with negative implications,...
Jul 10 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County grand jury indicted ZIPCO Services Inc. and its owner, Jerry Don Calicutt, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The indictments allege that...
Jul 6 2007 // Lloyd’s Ascot Underwriting, which operates Syndicate 1414 and is backed by AIG, announced the establishment of its new renewable energy operation, Renewco Underwriting. Ascot described Renewco as the “first...
Jul 6 2007 // The ACE European Group announced the launch of “ACE Renewable Energy,” a new program which it described as “an innovative insurance solution for UK renewable energy producers and providers in a single...
Jun 25 2007 // New Hampshire customers who were stranded after their oil company shut its doors in April confronted the company’s owners last Friday at a creditors’ hearing in Concord.Rumford Energy closed without warning,...
Jun 25 2007 // In a case stemming from a devastating oil spill, a federal appeals court in Boston sided with environmentalists and ordered a new hearing on a Massachusetts law aimed at preventing such disasters.The Legislature passed the...
Jun 22 2007 // An oil industry trade group said it has developed standards to better protect workers from explosions like the 2005 BP refinery in Texas explosion that killed 15 people and injured 170.The American Petroleum...
Jun 14 2007 // Unsafe work conditions contributed to a deadly oilfield explosion in Smith County, Miss., in 2006, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said this week.The board, an independent federal agency charged with investigating...
Jun 7 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Russia-based insurer Neftepolis Insurance Co. LLC to positive from stable, “as a result,” said the announcement, “of closer...
Jun 4 2007 // PeopleChicago-based Aon Corp. reported that David P. Bolger, executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer, will leave the company after the appointment of his successor. Bolger will...
May 30 2007 // If you think gasoline prices are high now, consider the eye-popping possibilities if another monster storm pummels the Gulf of Mexico this hurricane season, the way Katrina and Rita battered the petroleum-rich waters in...