All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2006 // Nuts & Bolts: Bonding and Insurance Specialists Agency is offering fire and water restoration contractors general liability plus contractor’s pollution and mold liability. BISA has been writing insurance and...
Jan 23 2006 // For insurers facing extraordinary exposure from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, unmatched losses beyond any other natural disasters in U.S. history, the bad news continues. Serious mold contamination is now threatening...
Jan 22 2006 // Insurers and property owners are finding that heat offers an effective alternative or adjunct to costly traditional demolition-based remediation and flood restoration.Heat treatment method offers options for relief efforts...
Jan 22 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known...
Jan 19 2006 // On Jan. 6, Maryland’s highest court handed a victory to the welding industry by ruling that the scope of the pollution liability exclusion in a business insurance policy does not encompass welding rod liability.In...
Dec 28 2005 // Euclid Insurance Services, Inc. in Itasca, Ill., plans to acquire McHenry, Ill.-based Environmental Insurance Brokers, Inc., a commercial insurance agency that specializes in serving the waste-hauling and transportation...
Dec 26 2005 // Burns & Wilcox has launched a new environmental program with ACE Westchester Specialty Group Environmental for environmental contractors and consultants. Rated “A+” by A.M. Best, ACE Westchester Specialty...
Dec 22 2005 // Oil-storage tanks in South Portland and paper mills in other parts of Maine would be among the facilities subject to additional safety standards if federal legislation to be introduced this week is enacted.U.S. Sen. Susan...
Dec 14 2005 // It happens quite often.An insured is sued and a question is raised as to whether there is insurance coverage for the claim. The insured states that “it thought it had coverage,” and if it does not have...
Dec 8 2005 // Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc. has received a final payment of $510,000 for the settlement of the remaining insurance claim, related to the fires, which occurred at the Perma- Fix of Michigan facility during...
Nov 10 2005 // A new “brownfields” rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will encourage redevelopment of old, abandoned industrial facilities, according to the National Association of Home Builders.The final...
Nov 8 2005 // An in depth study conducted by the Paris-based International Energy Agency forecasts a 50 percent rise in energy use between now and 2030. It also predicts a concurrent 52 percent rise in greenhouse gas emissions,...
Nov 6 2005 // ACE USA announced two appointments in its ACE Casualty Risk Unit. William Hazelton has joined as senior vice president and underwriting manager for ACE Environ-mental Risk, and Mitchell Schmidt is now senior vice president...
Oct 17 2005 // Hilb Rogal and Hobbs Company, headquartered in Glen Allen, Va., has appointed Michael Crowley to the position of president. In that role, Crowley will have overall responsibility for profit and loss, revenue growth,...
Oct 3 2005 // More frequent and intense heat waves that are expected in California during the next 100 years could overburden the state’s electric utility grid and cause rolling blackouts, according to a study by the U.S....
Oct 3 2005 // More frequent and intense heat waves that are expected in California during the next 100 years could overburden the state’s electric utility grid and cause rolling blackouts, according to a study by the U.S....
Sep 19 2005 // A Connecticut-based company that contaminated California’s San Gabriel Valley groundwater with its metal cleaning and degreasing procedures has agreed to spend $27.8 million on environmental projects and penalties in...
Sep 19 2005 // More frequent and intense heat waves that are expected in California during the next 100 years could overburden the state’s electric utility grid, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
Sep 19 2005 // A Wisconsin Senate Committee has killed the “all sums” bill, a measure vehemently opposed by the insurance industry.A.B. 222 (Senate Bill 137), was defeated in the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Insurance...
Sep 19 2005 // The environmental insurance program of Hudson Programs, an operating division of Hudson Insurance Group in New York, is now available in 49 states, plus the District of Columbia.The program includes coverage for all sizes...