All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 7 2008 // Marsh has appointed David Barr as a Managing Consultant in its UK Environmental Practice. He joins Marsh’s London office from Willis, where he headed up its UK Environmental Team.The bulletin described Barr as a...
Jan 31 2008 // On a Maplewood, N.J. hilltop with breathtaking views of New York’s skyline, sharpshooters perched in trees took aim Tuesday at white-tailed deer, a species being crowded out of one of the nation’s most densely...
Jan 27 2008 // American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of...
Jan 27 2008 // $1.3 MillionArkansas will receive $1.3 million out of the $72 million in funds and assets of Martin Frankel recently seized by the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Frankel was sent to...
Jan 27 2008 // $62,000Los Angeles-based Farmers Group Inc. announced it gave $62,000 to the La Jolla Band of Mission Indians to help rebuild after the Southern California fires of 2007. Farmers Executive Vice President of Field...
Jan 27 2008 // Zurich named Kevin Dunham senior vice president and global relationship leader for the western region of its Global Corporate in North America Business unit. Dunham is based in Glendale, Calif., and will manage accounts...
Jan 27 2008 // The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of...
Jan 24 2008 // Oklahoma legislators seem to have smoking on their minds. Recently filed bills aimed at smoking issues would require the sales of “fire safe” cigarettes, require insurance companies to provide coverage for...
Jan 21 2008 // A South Carolina company being sued by neighbors for polluting groundwater around its plant in Myrtle Beach is asking a court to force those neighbors to help pay for testing and cleanup of contamination.AVX Corp. says in...
Jan 10 2008 // Owners of a Texas plant that makes railroad ties were grossly negligent in failing to provide safety equipment for workers handling toxic chemicals, a pollution prevention expert testified in the first of a flurry of...
Jan 9 2008 // Jurors sided with oil giant BP Corp. North America Inc. Monday in a pollution lawsuit filed by the city of Neodesha seeking to recover the costs of cleanup and damages caused by an oil refinery.Jurors hearing the case in...
Jan 9 2008 // Environmental groups have sued Shell Oil Co. and several of its affiliates, claiming the oil giant has for years released pollutants from its suburban Houston refinery that are well above state and federal limits.In their...