All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 4 2008 // Influential Chinese companies that want to avoid competition are the biggest threat to more economic reform in China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday.Paulson’s comment echoed complaints by foreign...
Mar 31 2008 // The ACE Group of Companies announced that Huatai Insurance Company of China Limited, an ACE Group strategic partner, has received approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to become one of the first...
Mar 27 2008 // A nearly week-old oil well fire in Anderson County, Tenn. was extinguished Tuesday, but officials worried about the danger of lingering natural gas vapors asked residents to stay away.A spokeswoman for the Environmental...
Mar 24 2008 // A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official has told Anderson County residents that Tennessee officials did not inform them of an oil well fire in a timely manner.The well near Oliver Springs struck a huge pocket of...
Mar 24 2008 // A commission created after a Lake Tahoe blaze destroyed more than 250 California homes voted unanimously to seek state and federal emergency declarations to combat what it says is an imminent threat of catastrophic...
Mar 21 2008 // A Loudoun County, Virginia landfill blamed for contaminating drinking wells is being added to a federal registry of the nation’s most hazardous sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added the Hidden Lane...
Mar 21 2008 // Officials in Gibbsboro, New Jersey are protesting the designation of a federal Superfund environmental site.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the designation for 60 acres that center on a former...
Mar 19 2008 // Nine insurance companies should cover the costs assessed to the former Appleton Papers Inc. for cleanup of the industrial chemical PCBs in the Lower Fox River, a jury decided Monday.After a five-week trial, the jury took...
Mar 12 2008 // ACE has announced the launch of ACE PFI (Private Finance Initiative), which it describes as a “fully integrated insurance solution providing comprehensive cover and risk management advice for all aspects of a PFI...
Mar 10 2008 // Hot tub operators are reporting an increasing number of “hot tub rash” claims from people using their equipment. Although the rash is not a serious threat to health, such claims can be prevented or reduced by...
Mar 10 2008 // The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle has upheld an Alaskan district court ruling that a primary insurance carrier can cancel a marine vessel’s pollution insurance policy on the basis that the insured...
Mar 10 2008 // Insurance professionals gathered in the oak-paneled Old Library of Lloyd’s of London this past December to learn more about a risk that the institution’s 17th century founders could never have dreamed of —...
Mar 6 2008 // The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims, a CDC official told a...
Mar 3 2008 // Lexington Insurance Co. has begun offering commercial property insurance that will replace customers’ damaged buildings and property with green-friendly products.The coverage, called Upgrade to Green, is designed to...
Feb 27 2008 // A circuit judge in West Virginia has upheld a $196.2 million punitive damages award against DuPont in a class-action pollution case.Harrison County Circuit Court Chief Judge Thomas A. Bedell also ordered the Wilmington,...
Feb 24 2008 // BMS, a reinsurance intermediary based in Philadelphia, has appointed James T. Buysse as chief executive officer of its North American operations, BMS Intermediaries Inc.Buysse has 25 years of experience in the reinsurance...
Feb 24 2008 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC named Jim O’Connell principal. He also will serve as director of development for programs, specialty insurance solutions. In that role, he is responsible for both regional and...
Feb 21 2008 // The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle has upheld an Alaskan district court ruling that a primary insurance carrier can cancel a marine vessel’s pollution insurance policy on the basis that the insured...
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
Feb 19 2008 // A new report from Marsh’s London office focuses on the increasing problems of transport and logistics firms across Europe in coping with new categories of liability and an increasingly complex regulatory...