All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2009 // Houston-based insurance agency Bowen, Miclette & Britt named Dan Persha director of environmental risk management. With 30 years of commercial insurance brokerage experience, Persha specializes in heavy casualty,...
Jul 2 2009 // New York-based Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. has made three executive appointments.Jim Vendetti has been named senior vice president & chief underwriting officer. He will oversee building and managing all...
Jul 2 2009 // Houston, Texas-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. is offering a new market for hazardous waste transporters/haulers for hire or transporting own product between commercial locations (no residential...
Jun 23 2009 // Houston-based insurance agency Bowen, Miclette & Britt has named Dan Persha as director of Environmental Risk Management.With 30 years of commercial insurance brokerage experience, Persha specializes in heavy...
Jun 22 2009 // Connecticut officials were repeatedly warned about the dangers posed by a chimpanzee that later mauled and blinded a woman and were urged — more than three years before the attack — to take action, but failed...
Jun 15 2009 // Good Dogs, Bad Employer“We gave the employer every opportunity to comply with the law.” —Jan Eisbart, manager of the Insurance Compliance Division of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. The...
Jun 15 2009 // General liability carriers specializing in contractor insurance for builders and drywall subcontractors are “sweating it out” over the potentially massive claims dollars that could be paid out in litigation,...
Jun 15 2009 // In separate court actions, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson have charged BP Products North America Inc. with pollution violations (Texas) and manipulating the price of propane...
Jun 15 2009 // There is a lot at stake for all parties because the damages on a per house basis are likely to be astronomical.General liability carriers specializing in contractor insurance for builders and drywall subcontractors (subs)...
Jun 15 2009 // General liability carriers specializing in contractor insurance for builders and drywall subcontractors (subs) are “sweating it out” over the potentially massive claims dollars that could be paid out in...
Jun 15 2009 // The Supreme Court almost never takes up insurance related cases. Even so, President Obama’s recent Supreme Court nominee— federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor — brings a long record of decisions favoring...
Jun 15 2009 // Gencon, a general contractor, was nearly finished constructing a five-story apartment building when an employee accidentally damaged a sprinkler head causing a leak. Gencon made an emergency call to the plumbing store next...
Jun 11 2009 // A now-defunct poultry company got a better deal in settling an environmental lawsuit with the state because it was first to negotiate an agreement, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson has suggested.But one poultry...
Jun 11 2009 // The state of Illinois has filed a lawsuit against a Chicago suburb for allegedly drawing drinking water from a contaminated well for decades, then lying about it to residents and environmental authorities.The 58-page...
Jun 10 2009 // PartnerOne Environmental, the underwriting division of Virginia-based wholesaler Beacon Hill Associates, says it can now offer workers’ comp coverage in conjunction with general liability or contractors pollution...
Jun 9 2009 // Guy Carpenter & Company has published the latest installment in its series of updates on key legislative and legal developments impacting insurers and reinsurers in Continental Europe. The briefing addresses the...
May 28 2009 // Catastrophic events, the economy and changes in reinsurance capacity have the greatest impact on the availability and pricing of specialty lines coverage in 2009, according to professionals in the surplus lines...
May 27 2009 // The former owner of a St. Joseph, Mo., tannery that is being sued over health concerns acknowledged that the plant used a cancer-causing chemical, but he said the tanning process posed no danger to the public.The former...
May 27 2009 // Sonia Sotomayor, nominated by President Barack Obama for the U.S. Supreme Court, has a lengthy record of rulings in business cases as a federal judge in New York.But legal experts said Sotomayor does not appear to be...
May 20 2009 // AIU Holdings has introduced ReBuild, a suite of insurance and risk management products for states and municipalities receiving federal stimulus monies from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds for use...