All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 25 2007 // New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has nominated long-time insurance legislative leader Alexander B. “Pete” Grannis to serve as Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation.Grannis was first...
Jan 18 2007 // Federal agents will spend the rest of the week near Brooks, Kentucky investigating what caused a train carrying hazardous chemicals to derail and catch fire, forcing nearby residents to evacuate their homes.The chemical...
Jan 15 2007 // Markel Underwriting Managers, Inc.’s (MUM) Environmental Division has released a new excess product.The Follow Form Excess product (FFE) will be considered when writing over accounts where MUM’s Environmental...
Jan 2 2007 // Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city just south of Mexico’s border with Texas, far from talks on whether he’ll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in...
Dec 27 2006 // Collectable cars and trucks can soon skip emissions testing in Arizona’s Maricopa and Pima Counties.The Environmental Protection Agency approved Arizona legislation that will allow vehicles 15 years or older to skip...
Dec 25 2006 // JANUARYHallmark Aquires Aerospace Holdings Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark...
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARYHallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
Dec 21 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office announced that Abbott has taken legal action against four Houston-area chemical plants for violating Texas environmental laws. The case is the first in Texas arising out of...
Nov 30 2006 // ACE European Group (ACE) is warning that UK businesses are exposing themselves to unnecessary environmental liability risks, simply because they continue to view specialist insurance products as too expensive and overly...
Nov 17 2006 // Ohio and West Virginia residents who sued DuPont over a chemical used to produce Teflon may have to wait up to five years before learning if their health has been adversely affected by the substance, members of a science...
Nov 13 2006 // Amtrak trains returned to a normal schedule through the Sierra Nevada mountains Saturday, two days after the fatal derailment of a runaway maintenance train spilled thousands of gallons of diesel and hydraulic fluid and...
Nov 9 2006 // Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. has reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2006. The Company said it “had a negative $6.7 million in gross premiums written for the three months ended...
Nov 7 2006 // Itasca, Ill.-based Euclid Insurance Services has announced plans to acquire Melbourne, Florida-based Environmental Insurance Specialists, a commercial insurance agency that specializes in serving the waste-hauling and...
Nov 7 2006 // Douglas G. Hotchkiss, owner of the Dallas, Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, hadn’t thought much about building “green” or environmentally-friendly structures. But he now says, “it’s a...
Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...
Nov 6 2006 // Insurance agents and executives have a lot to worry about as the fast-paced virtual economy takes hold.According to futurist Edie Weiner, they are right to be worried. She says there are a lot of risks ahead and given the...
Nov 6 2006 // Douglas G. Hotchkiss, owner of the Dallas, Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, hadn’t thought much about building “green” or environmentally-friendly structures. But he now says, “it’s a...
Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...