All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2005 // A blaze that destroyed the vacant InterRoyal Mill complex in Plainfiled, Conn. on April 26 appears to have been set by someone, town Fire Marshal Paul Yellen said.Yellen said it was too early to know whether the fire was...
Apr 11 2005 // Months of record-setting rains that caused an abandoned coal mine to burst forth with more than 200 million gallons of water are now causing a rash of mine-related sinkholes in southwestern Pennsylvania.Four sinkholes have...
Apr 6 2005 // Jefferey S. Lejfer is opening the doors of New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a new environmental insurance wholesale firm. The company, based in Bordentown, N.J., will assist brokers and their clients find appropriate...
Apr 4 2005 // First there was radon, then carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.Now the latest home invader is mold and, in a national survey released by CertainTeed Corporation and conducted for them by Opinion Research...
Mar 22 2005 // Motivated by federal ethical standards, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has divested his interests in two Utah-based, family owned corporations.Because his agency oversees the insurance and animal health...
Mar 16 2005 // First there was radon, then carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.Now the latest home invader is mold and, in a national survey released by CertainTeed Corporation and conducted for them by Opinion Research...
Mar 4 2005 // Wind blown lead-enriched dust appears to be the primary cause of lead poisoning in children living in cities, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Xavier...
Mar 2 2005 // Liberty Mutual Group reported net income of $565 million and $1.245 billion for the three and 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2004, respectively, representing a $130 million and $394 million increase over the same periods in...
Mar 1 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced that its ACE Environmental Risk unit has launched a web-based underwriting facility that enables brokers to access Contractors...
Feb 24 2005 // A Hendricks County (Indiana) jury returned a verdict this week finding that Cinergy Corp. subsidiary PSI Energy Inc. was not entitled to any insurance recovery from its London Market Insurers for the costs incurred as a...
Feb 21 2005 // The law firm representing Allstate Insurance Company, American International Group Inc., Chubb & Son, and St. Paul Travelers has filed a demand, addressed to Diane Koken head of the Pennsylvania Department of...
Feb 21 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families.Pecoraro, who...
Feb 17 2005 // The “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses, has come into force seven years after it was established. So far 141 countries, accounting for 55 percent of greenhouse...
Feb 8 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families.Pecoraro, who...
Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: AIG Environmental, a division of the property/casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. (AIG), enhanced its environmental and general liability exposures program,...
Feb 4 2005 // California has won a $93 million settlement with 16 insurance companies over cleanup costs at a notorious hazardous waste site.Lloyd’s of London, one of the state’s major insurers, will pay $49 million of the...
Feb 3 2005 // To avoid any conflict of interest in his new job at U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt will divest more than $5 million of stock in his family’s insurance business.The Leavitt...
Jan 24 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced that its ACE Environmental Risk unit has introduced the capability for on-line product and claims reporting information via its new...
Jan 24 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: AIG Environmental said it has enhanced its environmental and general liability exposures program, aka “EAGLE.” The expanded product portfolio features new coverages to provide commercial...
Jan 17 2005 // College professors in Kentucky have joined the ranks of Americans claiming to suffer from the health effects of mold contamination.Faculty, including two nursing lab faculty members, at Mayville Community College...