All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2008 // Environmental Defense Fund is praising MileMeter for recently launching a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) insurance program in Texas that will reward low-mileage drivers with lower premiums than traditional, flat-rate...
Nov 11 2008 // A federal agency is accusing a real estate company of failing to notify prospective homeowners about lead paint problems at properties.The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday the corporate owners of Coldwell...
Nov 3 2008 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has become an Energy Star partner. The partnership, the first for an insurance company, recognizes the company’s leadership in promoting environmental...
Nov 2 2008 // Tonya I. Sylvester has been named a sales executive at Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency Inc. of Massachusetts.Sylvester will specialize in personal lines sales, and work out of the agency’s Canton and Plymouth...
Nov 2 2008 // Aon Consulting announced that Mark Arian has joined the firm as executive vice president and leader of the Aon Consulting Corporate Transactions group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions.Arian and his team will be...
Oct 30 2008 // Insurance leaders, policymakers, financial and scientific experts will meet in Harrisburg next week to discuss how climate change will impact many segments of business and industry, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel...
Oct 29 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has opened a new green campus in Vacaville, Calif. The group said in a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to ensuring the health of California’s communities...
Oct 23 2008 // A local television station has found high levels of formaldehyde in trailers issued to flood victims by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).The agency responded Tuesday by questioning the survey’s...
Oct 20 2008 // AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, enhanced and expanded its Pollution Legal Liability (PLL) insurance coverage to cover risks related to indoor air quality, non-owned disposal sites, emergency response...
Oct 20 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage is now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled...
Oct 16 2008 // John McGovern and Paul Duggan have joined National E&S Insurance Brokers Inc., a specialty wholesale environmental insurance broker based in Palmdale, Calif. Both McGovern and Duggan have extensive experience in...
Oct 7 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil...
Sep 25 2008 // After three days of deliberation in one of the longest jury trials ever held in Kansas, a jury in January left residents in a southeast city stunned.The panel had decided that the city of Neodesha was not entitled to...
Sep 25 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has introduced EPIQSM (Environmental Prospective Identification and Quantification), which it describes as an “an innovative and proprietary process that generates credible loss distributions...
Sep 12 2008 // According to a recently released report from Marsh, “insurance rates across most lines of business in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region continued to soften in the first half of 2008.”However,...
Sep 10 2008 // In a new report the Conference Board, a non-profit, business research organization, has concluded “restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not feasible without significant productivity growth and a...
Sep 9 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings announced that Rowan Douglas, managing director of analytics for Willis Re’s International and Specialty divisions, has been appointed to the...
Aug 27 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced the resolution of the state’s environmental enforcement action against two Lyondell Chemical Company subsidiaries that operated seven petrochemical plants in Houston and...
Aug 14 2008 // The government owns hundreds of underground fuel tanks — many designed for emergencies back in the Cold War — that need to be inspected for leaks of hazardous substances that could make local water...
Aug 7 2008 // Aon Corporation has launched the “Aon Green Building Property Program,” which it describes as the “industry’s most comprehensive insurance solution to facilitate environmentally friendly and...