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Environmental Liability: What’s Good Today, Could Be Bad Tomorrow

Nov 30 2008 // Environmental Insurance Delivers the Best Shield of Defense Against Emerging Pollutants The changing character of environmental regulation fits any definition of a moving target. Since the Environmental Protection Agency...

Hudson Insurance Environmental Products Unit Opens Dec. 1

Nov 25 2008 // Stamford, Conn.-based Hudson Insurance Group, the U.S. Insurance division of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp., reports that its Environmental Products unit will begin operations on Dec. 1, 2008. Hudson Environmental Products is...

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Nov 16 2008 // New York-based Navigators Group hired Paul Hennessy as president of Navigators Holdings (UK) Ltd. He will be responsible for Navigators’ operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and will report to President...

Green Building: New Benefits for Society and New Challenges for Risk Management

Nov 16 2008 // As society becomes more environmentally conscious, as energy prices continue to soar, and as government laws and regulations mandate it, green building promises to become the rule, rather than the exception, in the...

Environmentalists Praise By-the-Mile Auto Insurance Option in Texas

Nov 13 2008 // Environmental Defense Fund is praising MileMeter for recently launching a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) insurance program in Texas that will reward low-mileage drivers with lower premiums than traditional, flat-rate...

EPA: Company Failed to Warn about Lead Paint in 4 New England States

Nov 11 2008 // A federal agency is accusing a real estate company of failing to notify prospective homeowners about lead paint problems at properties. The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday the corporate owners of Coldwell...

Fireman’s Fund Insurance Named Energy Star Partner

Nov 3 2008 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has become an Energy Star partner. The partnership, the first for an insurance company, recognizes the company’s leadership in promoting environmental...

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Nov 2 2008 // Tonya I. Sylvester has been named a sales executive at Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency Inc. of Massachusetts. Sylvester will specialize in personal lines sales, and work out of the agency’s Canton and Plymouth...

Nov 2 2008 // Aon Consulting announced that Mark Arian has joined the firm as executive vice president and leader of the Aon Consulting Corporate Transactions group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Arian and his team will be...

Pennsylvania Insurance Dept to Hold Climate Change Conference

Oct 30 2008 // Insurance leaders, policymakers, financial and scientific experts will meet in Harrisburg next week to discuss how climate change will impact many segments of business and industry, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel...

California State Compensation Insurance Fund Opens Green Campus

Oct 29 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has opened a new green campus in Vacaville, Calif. The group said in a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to ensuring the health of California’s communities...

FEMA Trailers in Iowa Exceed Formaldehyde Levels Considered Safe

Oct 23 2008 // A local television station has found high levels of formaldehyde in trailers issued to flood victims by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The agency responded Tuesday by questioning the survey’s...

AIG Environmental Enhances Pollution Legal Liability Coverage

Oct 20 2008 // AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, enhanced and expanded its Pollution Legal Liability (PLL) insurance coverage to cover risks related to indoor air quality, non-owned disposal sites, emergency response...

Assessment of Ike’s Environmental Damage Begins

Oct 20 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage is now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled...

McGovern, Duggan Join National E&S Insurance Brokers

Oct 16 2008 // John McGovern and Paul Duggan have joined National E&S Insurance Brokers Inc., a specialty wholesale environmental insurance broker based in Palmdale, Calif. Both McGovern and Duggan have extensive experience in...

Investigation: Ike’s Toll on Environment a Heavy One

Oct 7 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil...

Judge Sides with Polluted Kansas Town Over Big Oil

Sep 25 2008 // After three days of deliberation in one of the longest jury trials ever held in Kansas, a jury in January left residents in a southeast city stunned. The panel had decided that the city of Neodesha was not entitled to...

Willis Introduces EPIQ, for Environmental Risk Assessment

Sep 25 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has introduced EPIQSM (Environmental Prospective Identification and Quantification), which it describes as an “an innovative and proprietary process that generates credible loss distributions...

Marsh Sees Credit Crunch ‘Hardening’ Rates, ‘But Not Just Yet’

Sep 12 2008 // According to a recently released report from Marsh, “insurance rates across most lines of business in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region continued to soften in the first half of 2008.” However,...

Conf. Board Urges Tech Transfer to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses

Sep 10 2008 // In a new report the Conference Board, a non-profit, business research organization, has concluded “restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not feasible without significant productivity growth and a...