All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 13 2009 // XL Insurance now offers several program enhancements to its pollution coverages for contractors, extending environmental coverage for all aspects of a contractor’s operations, both on and off the jobsite, the company...
Jan 11 2009 // Jim Johnstone has joined Westbrook, Conn.-based The Gowrie Group of Cos. as a producer in the Boat/Yacht department. Jim brings deep marine and sailing industry expertise that will enable Gowrie to broaden its reach into...
Jan 11 2009 // Markel Corp. has promoted Henry Lopez to executive vice president for the Markel Midwest region.Lopez has been with Markel since 1995 and most recently was the vice president, director of business development for...
Jan 8 2009 // Zurich North America appointed Julie Dunai as head of its Environmental unit. In this role, Dunai will oversee all aspects of the unit’s operations, which deliver insurance solutions addressing professional liability...
Jan 7 2009 // The 4th District of the California Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court decision in a pollution liability case, State of California v. Continental Insurance Co. et al.Policyholders are entitled to the full policy...
Jan 6 2009 // Bermuda-based Ironshore Inc. announced that Joe Boren and John O’Brien have joined as CEO and president, respectively, of its newly established Environmental Insurance facility.The company said the new unit will...
Jan 6 2009 // AIG has named Russell Johnston as president and CEO of AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance. Johnston assumes management responsibility for AIG Environmental from Joseph Boren, who has left the company to...
Jan 5 2009 // The owner of a now-demolished southern Illinois hotel has agreed to pay $30,000 as part of a settlement with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan over asbestos that she says was improperly removed.The Illinois...
Dec 31 2008 // Staring tomorrow, homeowners and commercial building owners in Pennsylvania can take advantage of substantially lower rates for mine subsidence insurance, making it more affordable to protect against catastrophic damage...
Dec 30 2008 // Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that the Statewide Grand Jury has indicted Richard Oliver on four felony charges involving asbestos removal and disposal. The charges include causing or contributing to a...
Dec 30 2008 // Heavy-metal contaminants left by an Oklahoma zinc smelter that closed more than eight decades ago will be cleaned up through a $6.6 million plan chosen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The former Tulsa Fuel and...
Dec 29 2008 // Authorities need to more strongly warn residents that muck left from a major coal-ash spill in eastern Tennessee could pose health risks, a southern environmental group said Saturday.The Tennessee Department of Environment...
Dec 22 2008 // U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal in Houston has been called upon to rule if Great American Insurance Co. is acting within policy and contract language and in accordance with the required utmost good faith in asserting...
Dec 22 2008 // Navigators Management Co. has established Navigators Environmental, a new business unit that will focus on underwriting specialized environmental insurance products on a global basis.Adrien Robinson has joined Navigators...
Dec 19 2008 // An insurance company is arguing in a Texas court that a policy it issued that excludes payments for pollution prevents the families of three people killed in a 2007 Houston office building fire from being compensated...
Dec 18 2008 // Kansas City, Mo.-based Rockhill Insurance Company recently added Alex Pittignano to its Rockhill Underwriting Management as vice president of Environmental and Jim Ziogas has joined National Environmental Coverage...
Dec 17 2008 // Aon has issued a warning from its London office to UK companies, which indicates that they may “face new insurance claim burdens in 2009 with fraud on the increase and spiraling legal fees.”Aon also said that,...
Dec 17 2008 // ACE Europe (ACE) announced that it has “further strengthened its environmental risk team with the appointment of Chris Strong as Environmental Risk Underwriter.” ACE said it made the appointment in anticipation...
Dec 15 2008 // Aon Corp. announced that Jim Finnamore will join the firm in January as regional director of Aon Environmental Services Group, Asia-Pacific. He will be based in Singapore and will coordinate the delivery of the...
Dec 15 2008 // Environmental officials say a settlement has been reached to complete the cleanup of the Shpack landfill in Norton and Attleboro, MassachusettsThe landfill is a federal Superfund site contaminated with chemical and...