All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2010 // Bordentown, N.J.-based New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, an environmental and construction-related professional liability resource for insurance agents and brokers, announced it is building its underweriting team by...
Jan 4 2010 // The largest zinc producer in the United States and an environmental group have settled a federal lawsuit claiming the company polluted the Ohio River. Under the settlement with Clean Water Action, Horsehead Holding Corp....
Dec 11 2009 // Oklahoma will receive almost $40 million to fund environmental cleanup and restoration at contaminated mining sites in the state, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. Texas will receive about more than $80...
Dec 7 2009 // The severity of injury and level of impairment — not the workers’ legal fees — have the most effect on payout for workers’ compensation claims among Illinois construction workers, researchers at the...
Dec 7 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has revised its view of the U.S. property/casualty industry’s ultimate asbestos and environmental (A&E) losses downward to $117 billion from $121 billion. Asbestos exposures now are estimated at...
Dec 3 2009 // China and other big developing nations rejected core targets for a climate deal such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 just five days before talks start in Copenhagen, diplomats said Wednesday.China, the...
Nov 18 2009 // Senator Barbara Boxer Tuesday predicted that the United States will not reach a consensus on carbon emission reduction goals for 2020 in time for December’s international global warming summit in Copenhagen.Boxer,...
Nov 18 2009 // Chartis (the former P/C division of AIG) announced the introduction by its Environmental Division of a specifically crafted endorsement, designed to address the environmental risk exposures for carbon capture and storage...
Nov 18 2009 // U.S. Congressman Charlie Melancon of Louisiana has introduced federal legislation that would prevent insurance companies from cancelling or failing to renew homeowners’ policies as the result of Chinese drywall in...
Nov 17 2009 // The Connecticut-based Beazley Group announced the launch of its first two environmental insurance products “to meet the evolving needs of the environmental services industry.”The Company, a subsidiary of the...
Nov 16 2009 // A city councilman in Libby, Mont., said Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency owes the asbestos-plagued Superfund community $2 million for the demolition of several contaminated buildings.The city-owned...
Nov 15 2009 // Federal investigators have been unable to prove a definite link between imported Chinese drywall and home damage and health issues. But they aren’t done investigating.The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that...
Nov 15 2009 // Federal investigators have been unable to prove a definite link between imported Chinese drywall, and home damage and health issues. But they aren’t done investigating. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said...
Nov 15 2009 // In today’s competitive insurance industry and struggling economy, agents are hard pressed to sell anything more than the bare coverage necessities. But while this challenge may seem daunting, it is not without...
Nov 13 2009 // Programs and environmental insurance veteran David Blum announced the opening of D.S. Blum Inc., a wholesale insurance brokerage headquartered in suburban Chicago.The brokerage will focus on assisting small and mid-size...
Nov 11 2009 // U.S. Senator John Kerry said Tuesday he will try to “outline” a compromise climate control bill before December’s international global warming conference and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave an...
Nov 9 2009 // An Avella, Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.George Zimmermann, the owner of 480...
Nov 6 2009 // The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee sought Wednesday to sue the state for $150 million, saying officials failed to prevent the attack.Attorneys for Charla Nash’s family filed a notice...
Nov 1 2009 // China is helping American officials investigate reports of contaminated Chinese drywall after thousands of American homeowners complained the building material made them sick or damaged their houses, a top U.S. safety...
Oct 30 2009 // Federal investigators have been unable to prove a definite link between imported Chinese drywall and home damage and health issues. But they aren’t done investigating.The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that...