environmental coverage News

New Hampshire Jury Finds Exxon Mobil Liable for $236.4M in U.S. Pollution Suit

A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found Exxon Mobil Corp liable for $236.4 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the oil company had polluted groundwater in the state with a gasoline additive used to reduce smog in the 1970s …

ACE Launches Borderless International Pollution Liability Coverage

ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has introduced a foreign casualty pollution liability coverage endorsement. This new endorsement provides a limited pollution coverage extension in conjunction with ACE ATLAS CMP, ACE’s U.S. Controlled Master Program (CMP) …

Beazley Launches Environmental Cleanup Costs Insurance

Beazley plc has expanded its environmental products offering with the launch of an environmental cleanup costs insurance policy that provides coverage for cost overruns for remediation of known conditions at covered locations. The product, written on a non-admitted basis through …

Chartis Expands NextGen Protection to Hospitality, Leisure Industries

The Chartis Insurers have added PLL Hospitality Protect to their NextGen Protection suite of industry specific insurance products. Environmental pollution exposures related to the hospitality and leisure industry remain a challenge to manage with new risks constantly on the rise. …

Freberg Environmental to Underwrite New Berkley Envrionmental Coverage

Freberg Environmental Insurance (FEI) has formed an agreement to underwrite environmental insurance coverage with Berkley Custom Insurance Managers, LLC, a newly formed member company of W. R. Berkley Corp. In addition to writing core environmental programs for site-specific pollution liability …

ACE Expands Catastrophe Management Services for Environmental Risks

ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has expanded its environmental risk insurance products to add catastrophe management coverage. In addition to coverage for standard remediation services included in the off-the-shelf environmental policies, ACE now covers the …

PartnerOne, Berkley Environmental to Offer Site Pollution Liability

PartnerOne Environmental , an underwriting division of Beacon Hill Associates’, is now working in partnership with Berkley Environmental, a dvision of Berkley Specialty Underwriting Managers, to offer site pollution liability. This product will provide coverage for both on-site and off-site …

Chartis Expands Environmental Insurance Coverage to Chemical Industry

Chartis has expanded NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance products offered through its Environmental division, to meet the needs of chemical manufacturers and distributors. The latest product in the NextGen Protection suite is EAGLE ChemProtect, which has been developed …

ACE Westchester Expands Environmental Coverage with Premises Pollution Package

ACE Westchester, the U.S.-based wholesale-focused insurance division of the ACE Group, has launched ACE Westchester Elite Premises Pollution Liability form. The new policy provides a package of pollution coverages and offers additional enhancements for the risks and exposures faced by …

Beazley Extends Global Environmental Underwriting to Pollution Coverage

Specialist insurer Beazley announced that it is broadening its coverage of environmental risks, first launched by its U.S. company,  by “establishing an environmental risks underwriting capability at Lloyd’s, which will be headed by Nicholas Pearson, a senior member of Beazley’s …