Latest Pollution Headlines
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Case Law Watch
Jan 29 2007 // Additional Insureds Alpha Holdings Ltd. v. Travelers Indemnity (California Court of Appeals, Second District, July 13, 2006) Ruling: This case involved a declaratory judgment action on insurance coverage under a...
FERMA Urges Members to Develop Environmental Liability Products
Jan 29 2007 // Warning that “European businesses face uninsurable environmental impairment risks,” the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) called on insurers to be less “risk averse.” It...
Liberty Mutual Fellowship Backs Workplace Safety Research
Jan 26 2007 // The Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group recently donated $30,000 to the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation in continuation of its commitment to occupational safety and health research through the support...
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Environmental Cleanup Costs
Jan 26 2007 // The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to tackle an environmental case that could clarify when companies which have incurred industrial cleanup costs can seek to force the government or other companies to share the...
N.Y. Assemblyman Grannis in Line to Be State Environmental Commissioner
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...
Feds Arrive in Kentucky to Investigate Hazardous Chemical Rail Fire
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...
Markel Offers New ‘Follow Form Excess’ Product
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...
Despite 2004 Ruling, Mexican Truck Travel Still Limited
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...
EPA Approves Exemptions for Classic Car Emission Testing
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...
2006: a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 25 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark 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...
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
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...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 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...
2006:a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark 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...
Texas AG Cracks Down on Chemical Plants for Alleged Air Pollution
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...
Businesses Must Address Environmental Exposures, Says Insurer
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...
Court-Appointed Scientists Say Teflon Health Studies Could Take Years
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...
Amtrak Returns to Normal through Sierra Mountains
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...
Quanta’s Q3 Report Reflects Run-offs
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...
Ill. Euclid Insurance to Acquire Environmental Insurance Specialists
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...
Under Construction: The Green Property Insurance Market
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...
